Allegra

“You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.”
― John Irving, The World According to Garp

“I often cannot believe the things I do.”
― Dave Eggers, What Is the What

“That was part of being a girl--you were resigned to whatever feedback you'd get. If you got mad, you were crazy, and if you didn't react, you were a bitch. The only thing you could do was smile from the corner they'd backed you into. Implicate yourself in the joke even if the joke was always on you.”
― Emma Cline, The Girls

“Hell is the absence of the people you long for.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven