Felisha

“Anger demands you DO and sadness requires you be. For all my inherited comfort with anger, I find sitting in sadness to be excruciating. Anger is so much easier! It’s a quick release and it feels good in the moment, but it can really hurt people, which also hurts me. But if I can manage to sit in the uncomfortable feelings that lie beneath, even for a millisecond, I am offered a tiny gift. The gift of a pause. And in that pause a crack of light comes in and I’m able to see things a little more clearly. I know to immediately turn my phone off or, if I’m driving, pull over and put it in the trunk both for its own safety and so I don’t call anyone. And if I’m still mad after a few hours, great. I now know it’s something worth being angry about. But the pause allowed me to gather myself and harness my anger so I can now aim it in an appropriate”
― Casey Wilson, The Wreckage of My Presence

“You think you're unlovable. But I think I've never known how to love, until knowing you.”
― Sarah Adams, Beg, Borrow, or Steal

“I'll be so careful with you, Emily.”
― Sarah Adams, Beg, Borrow, or Steal

“Why has age made me better at so few things?”
― Samantha Irby, Wow, No Thank You.: Essays