Minja

“Everyone is broken. The only difference is how.”
― Anna-Marie McLemore, Wild Beauty

“No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy would have supposed her born to be an heroine.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.”
― Oscar Wilde

“We try so hard to make these little time capsules. Memories string up just so, like holiday lights, casting the perfect glow in the left tones. But picking and choosing what to look at, what to put on display- that's not the true nature of remembering.
Memory is a mean thing, slicing at you from the harshest angles, dipping your consciousness into the wrong colors again and again. A moment of humiliation, or devastation, or absolute rage, to be rewound and replayed, spinning a thread that wraps around the brain, knotting itself into something of a noose. It won't exactly kill you, but it makes you feel the squeeze of every horrible moment. How do you stop it? How do you work the mind free?”
― Emily X R Pan