Amanda Skyler > Recent Status Updates

“a lovely girl gazing at the stars, and the stars who gazed back.”

Just some light birthday reading today. :)

“I needed this reminder of one of the benefits of working at Victoria’s Secret- helping women feel better about themselves. It doesn’t take much. Sometimes just a well fitting bra. Yank those tits up & the self worth comes with it”

“I’m not hard to love. I just need a lot and am a lot”

What I miscalculated about leaping past mistakes to enlightenment was that disowning messy parts of myself didn’t mean they didn’t exist, nor had I “fixed” them. Avoiding uncomfortable thoughts & volatile feelings did not make them, or the deepest wounds accompanying them, disappear. They were just banished out of my direct awareness, lying dormant in the shadows. & I had a life’s worth of them festering

“God was the only force I’d ever heard of that was larger than my family’s problems…”

“It seems smart to be a lesbian right now. Men are awful”

“I can appreciate my body in a bikini and still want to set fire to the patriarchy.”

“Reading the wrong book is almost worse than not reading any book at all”

“The Florida sun had been cooking the room all day and the air felt like soup.”

“You can’t call your soul your own once you’ve had a baby without a marriage certificate.”

“there is such beauty in resilience, and in the ability to laugh despite it at”

“Does anyone ever want to finish a good book?”

“I worried that she was too young. That she was making the decision more out of a need for security than because it was what she wanted deep down. But the truth is she seemed happy.”

““And for you ma’am?’ the server asks.
I stifle the shiver that runs down my spine whenever a 20-something calls me ma’am. This must be how ghosts feel when people walk over their graves”

“I can’t help it. I laugh. That’s always been my reaction to bad news. It’s probably how I won the role of evil villainess in my own life. But what else am I supposed to do? Melt into a crying puddle on this packed sidewalk? What good would that do?” … damn… same Nora, same.
But the next sentence starting with the “So to be clear” corporate clarification line is sending me! Hahaha

A light reread for book club

Why is this booking taking ten million years to get through? Why do I have to reread every chapter 3 times to understand anything?! Send help.

*audibly gasped*

Anyone else remember that ninja warrior show?! Haha

.. slow burn

“Can’t you see what’s happening. We have known for a long time. For years we’ve been warning you that the climate is changing. But as always their voices were too weak and the wind hadn’t been strong enough to carry them where they needed to go.”

… my anxiety