Ellie Hill

“The lower our self-esteem, the higher we climb the mountain of happiness, when we are complimented … or wanted.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I will be stronger than my sadness.”
― Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes

“I have never seen battles quite as terrifyingly beautiful as the ones I fight when my mind splinters and races, to swallow me into my own madness, again.”
― Nicole Lyons, Hush

“The shame that tormented me was all the more corrosive for having no very clear origin: I didn't know why I felt so tainted, and worthless, and wrong-only that I did, and whenever I looked up from my books I was swamped by slimy waters rushing in from all sides.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch