Ren Rose

“And still, on occasion, I'll disable my social media blockers, and I'll sit there like a rat pressing the lever, like a woman repeatedly hitting myself on the forehead with a hammer, masturbating through the nightmare until I finally catch the gasoline whiff of a good meme.”
― Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

“The day will be what you make it, so rise like the sun, and burn.”
― William C. Hannan

“That's the power of literature, you know, it can act like little love letters between two people who can only explain their feelings by pointing at other people's.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very quiet if only those birds sing there that sang best.”
― Henry Van Dyke