Bec

“When someone chooses to lift the curtain on a perceived imperfection in her story, on a circumstance or condition that traditionally might be considered to be a weakness, what she’s often actually revealing is the source code for her steadiness and strength.”
― Michelle Obama, The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times

“When you're growing up, you don't ask whether your family's good, do you? Especially if you don't know anything else. They're just your family.”
― Emma Törzs, Ink Blood Sister Scribe

“That's just what translation is, I think. That's all speaking is. Listening to the other and trying to see past your own biases to glimpse what they're trying to say. Showing yourself to the world, and hoping someone else understands.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“...it's the steps themselves that make a path, instead of the other way round. We are creating even as we believe we are following.”
― Emma Törzs, Ink Blood Sister Scribe