Amelia L

“There is no good answer to being a woman; the art may instead lie in how we refuse the question.”
― Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror

“Beauty work is labeled “self-care” to make it sound progressive”
― Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

“you can't fight fire with fire,"
is something I always
tried reminding you;
yet, without a shadow of doubt,
we watched each other burn
and called it love.
:')”
― Orion Carloto

“And the real trick of athleisure is the way it can physically suggest that you were made to do this- that you're the kind of person who thinks that putting in expensive hard work for a high-functioning, maximally attractive consumer existence is about a good a way to pass your time on earth as there is.”
― Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion