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“At school, I'd cry at how much I missed her. Sitting in between her back and the backrest. Even since I'd gotten bigger, I'd always cling to my mother. I hate my mother...Protest that I detest her and despise her and all the while I'm clinging on. And well, here I am still clinging on at 28.”
― Kabi Nagata, My Solo Exchange Diary Vol. 2

“A House of My Own
Not a flat. Not an apartment in back. Not a man's house. Not a daddy's. A house all my own. With my porch and my pillow, my pretty purple petunias. My books and my stories. My two shoes waiting beside the bed. Nobody to shake a stick at. Nobody's garbage to pick up after.
Only a house quiet as snow, a space for myself to go, clean as paper before the poem.”
― Cisneros, Sandra

“I used to look at my sensitivity as a weakness. I wondered why I had to care so much, about everything, all the time. But now it is my true superpower. I am grateful to have a sensitive heart. I am lucky to love deeply. I know this now.”
― Madison Beer, The Half of It: A Memoir

“Those people who have hurt me, over and over, whom I have escaped or walled off, are deeply significant in my story, but they are not central to my existence.”
― Mariah Carey, The Meaning of Mariah Carey