Micah ☔️

“When we write about our lives, it's a form of time travel. We inhabit the body we were back then, and yet we do so from our safe distance in the future.”
― Lucy Knisley, Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos

“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
― Albert Camus

“Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace - not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

“Rodrick’s punishment was that he had to answer a bunch of questions Mom wrote out for him. Did owning this magazine make you a better person? No. Did it make you more popular at school? No. How do you feel about having owned this type of magazine now? I feel ashamed. Do you have anything you want to say to women for having owned this offensive magazine? I’m sorry women.”
― Jeff Kinney, Diary of a Wimpy Kid