Reagan Grambusch

“Your self-esteem determines how you feel about the sincerity of others.”
― Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki

“What does it really look like?"
"I can show you," he purrs, letting the light settle in his palm. "Say the word, and I will lay your own soul bare before you. Surrender, and I promise, the last thing you see will be the truth."
There it is again.
One time salt, and the next honey, and each designed to cover poison.
Addie looks at the ring, lets herself linger on it one last time, and then forces her gaze up past the light to meet the dark.
"You know," she says, "I think I'd rather live and wonder.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“But again, you can enjoy the freedom of your own thoughts. Instead of thinking, 'I must not have these thoughts.”
― Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki

“I want to love and be loved. i wan to find a way where I don't hurt myself. I want to live a life where I say things are good more than things are bad. I want to keep failing and discovering new and better directions. I want to enjoy the tides of feeling in me as the rhythms of life. I want to be the kind of person who can walk inside the vast darkness and find the one fragment of sunlight I can linger in for a long time.

Some day, I will.”
― Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki