Kendra

“We all craft a story we can live with. The one that makes ourselves easier to live with. This is not the one worth writing. To write your story, you must face a truer version of it. You must look at the parts that hurt, that do not flatter or comfort you. That do not spare you the trouble of knowing what made you, and what into. I used to wonder if my own difficulty in doing this made me a hypocrite. Now, I'm not sure I believe in hypocrites. We often prescribe for others the thing we most need. It is part of how we learn.”
― Melissa Febos, Abandon Me: Memoirs

“You don't leave out of anger or from coming to your senses, but because your love is not as strong as your reasons for going.”
― Melissa Febos, Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York

“I did not choose my female body. But I chose every image painted on it.”
― Melissa Febos, Abandon Me: Memoirs

“No one tells you it's all about to change, to be taken away. There's no proximity alert, no indication that you're standing on the precipice. And maybe that's what makes tragedy so tragic. Not just what happens, but how it happens: a sucker punch that comes at you out of nowhere, when you're least expecting it. No time to flinch or brace.”
― Blake Crouch, Dark Matter