Michelle Lin

“A torpid heart in agony needs a pen to bleed”
― Munia Khan

“Maybe we should all decide we’re going to meet the man of our dreams when we’re thirty-seven. Then we’ll stop squeezing into tight shirts and walking around half-naked and analysing every encounter as future husband material. We’ll stop feeling the need to put on makeup to take out the trash just in case he’s walking by. Maybe we should just assume that we’ll meet our dream man at some future point, and stop driving ourselves crazy before then.”
― Caren Lissner, Starting from Square Two

“Higher taxes to bring down public debt would also put to rest the tawdry rhetoric according to which ‘we’ should not live at the expense of ‘our children’ – when the real problem is that the ‘better-off’ live at everyone else’s expense by largely avoiding the social costs involved in the upkeep of their hunting grounds.”
― Wolfgang Streeck, Buying Time: The Delayed Crisis of Democratic Capitalism

“Many smiling faces hide a bleeding heart”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity