Rachel

“I’m not sad, but the boys who are looking for sad girls always find me. I’m not a girl anymore and I’m not sad anymore. You want me to be a tragic backdrop so that you can appear to be illuminated, so that people can say ‘Wow, isn't he so terribly brave to love a girl who is so obviously sad?’ You think I’ll be the dark sky so you can be the star? I’ll swallow you whole.”
― Warsan Shire

“Suppose we suddenly wake up and see that what we thought to be this and that, ain't this and that at all?”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

“At the end of the day, it isn’t where I came from. Maybe home is somewhere I’m going and never have been before.”
― Warsan Shire

“You don’t have to live your life the way
other people expect you to.”
― Chris Guillebeau, A Brief Guide to World Domination