Amelia L

“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 asked me to sing for you, and through my toothy smile I had to admit that I only sound pretty with the capo tuned on 2nd. watching me meticulously handcraft one from miscellaneous hotel souvenirs, I sang to you a song I wrote about someone once before you.”
― Orion Carloto

“How strange to feel something so close to mercy, whatever that was, and stranger still that it should be found in here of all places, at the end of a road of ruined houses by a toxic river. That among a pile of salvaged trash, he would come closest to all he ever wanted to be: a consciousness sitting under a light-bulb reading his days away, warm and alone, alone and yet, somehow, still somebody's son.”
― Ocean Vuong, The Emperor of Gladness

“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