Kiera

“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

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

“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

“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