Kiera

“But let me see if—using these words as a little plot of land and my life as a cornerstone— I can build you a center. —Qiu Miaojin”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it. And what could be more terrifying and beautiful, to souls like the Greeks or our own, than to lose control completely?”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“Nobody looks him in the face now, it’s as if his grief frightens them. What are they afraid of? That one day they’ll have to endure pain like this? Or that they never will, that they’re incapable of it, because grief’s only ever as deep as the love it’s replaced.”
― Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls

“nor did I have any clue about just how much hard, painful emotional work was ahead of me to undo the damage that the undiagnosed decades had done to my self-esteem.”
― Matilda Boseley, The Year I Met My Brain: A travel companion for adults who have just found out they have ADHD