Emily Ray

“If the self can only understand that ‘it was already dying, already dead’, then it can crash to the bottom with equanimity; if it can also understand that everything around it is fleeting and insubstantial – a speck of dust in the cosmos, to be blown away in a millisecond – it can quietly let go of the world. It won’t hurt much.”
― Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline

“Predators and abusers, my shrink has said, can sense your pain and weakness. It’s their gift.”
― Lisa Unger, The Doll's House

“For so many of us, sorry has become how we translate the word body.”
― Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

“But even as I fought to make myself smaller, my self would fight back. The diets would not stick, the laughter would not quiet, the opinions would not hide, the anger would not die. Every attempt I made to be less of myself would fail, and I would come back bigger than ever—in every way.”
― Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love