Olivia

“I was like that wife of Kitchen God. Nobody worshiped her either. He got all the excuses. He got all the credit. She was forgotten.”
― Amy Tan, The Kitchen God's Wife

“My life wouldn't be easier if I were thin. My life would be easier if this culture wasn't obsessed with oppressing me because I'm fat. The solution to a problem like bigotry is not to do everything in our power to accommodate the bigotry. It is to get rid of the bigotry.”
― Virgie Tovar, You Have the Right to Remain Fat

“...things get broken, and sometimes they get repaired, and in most cases, you realize that no matter what gets damaged, life rearranges itself to compensate for your loss, sometimes wonderfully.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“Every book is a self help book to me. Just having them makes me feel better...Reading is like a drug. When I am reading from these books it feels like I am thinking what is being read, and that gives me a rush.”
― Marc Maron