Amelia L

“When you are a woman, this things you like get used against you. Or, alternatively, the things that get used against you have all been prefigured as things you should like. Sexual availability falls into this category. So does basic kindness, and generosity. Wanting to look good- taking pleasure in trying to look good- does, too.”
― Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

“We are all living, at most, half of a life, she thought. There was the life that you lived, which consisted of the choices you made. And them, there was the other life, the one that was the things you hadn't chosen. And sometimes, this other life felt as palpable as the one. you were living”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“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

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