Alanna

“A single girl who needs nobody makes people uncomfortable, and my mom is right in this, appearance is everything, and appearing to have no one is like swimming alone in the middle of the ocean with a flesh wound.”
― Elissa Schappell, Blueprints for Building Better Girls

“The earth makes a sound as of sighs and the last drops fall from the emptied cloudless sky. A small boy, stretching out his hands and looking up at the blue sky, asked his mother how such a thing was possible. Fuck off, she said.”
― Samuel Beckett

“No one explains this to you, he thought. That there are so many things without solution.”
― Jesse Ball

“keep fresh before me the moments of my high resolve.”
― Howard Thurman