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

“The most beautiful part of your body
is where it’s headed. & remember,
loneliness is still time spent
with the world.”
― Ocean Vuong

“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

“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