Kiera

“She’s just finished university, moved out of home and started her first full-time job. Sure, she’s bright, and she’s always been a high achiever, but now that the scaffolding of formal education and the daily support provided by living with her parents has fallen away, everything has become so much harder.”
― Matilda Boseley, The Year I Met My Brain: A travel companion for adults who have just found out they have ADHD

“As a girl, you watched, from a banana grove, your schoolhouse collapse after an American napalm raid. At five, you never stepped into a classroom again. Our mother tongue, then, is no mother at all—but an orphan. Our Vietnamese a time capsule, a mark of where your education ended, ashed. Ma, to speak in our mother tongue is to speak only partially in Vietnamese, but entirely in war.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“Turns out it’s really hard to adopt healthy habits to help treat your neurological condition when the very neurological condition you’re trying to treat makes it really hard to adopt healthy habits.”
― Matilda Boseley, The Year I Met My Brain: A travel companion for adults who have just found out they have ADHD

“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