Kiera

“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

“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

“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