Kimberly

“the quality of the questions determines the quality of the answers. Don’t make do with simple answers simply to get the job done. Ask for more time if that’s what will take you forward. Ask uncomfortable questions. Even a denial is an answer. A hesitation is an opening and a lie is a smoke screen to hide something else.”
― Karin Smirnoff, The Girl in the Eagle's Talons

“But I guess by now I should know enough about loss to realize that you never really stop missing someone—you just learn to live around the huge gaping hole of their absence.”
― Alyson Noel, Blue Moon

“Men jumped in to tell me I was ugly and unfuckable but also that I deserved to be raped, that I was going to choke to death on their dicks. They didn’t even care about Archangel. They just couldn’t pass up an opportunity to tell a woman that (a) they’d never fuck her and also (b) they were going to fuck her until she died.”
― Maggie Shipstead, Great Circle

“We either own our stories (even the messy ones), or we stand outside of them—denying our vulnerabilities and imperfections, orphaning the parts of us that don’t fit in with who/what we think we’re supposed to be, and hustling for other people’s approval of our worthiness”
― Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead