Nicole Stanley > Recent Status Updates

"A reminder that she might be the heir of fire... but Erawan was King of the Darkness."

"Did I really used to spend energy hating the other women at the school gates? How petty, how privileged, to have had the energy for something so inconsequential."

"Show me a woman who, beneath all the eyelash extensions and hair dye and loose beach waves isn't f*cking boiling with rage at the sheer injustice of it all."

"I am overwhelmed with the urge to fold him up like an origami swan and stuff him back inside my belly, where he will be safe forever."

"I'm not going to make assumptions from a fragment of a conversation I wasn't supposed to hear." YASSSS FINALLY 👏

"The core of her, the soft vulnerable inside, was too scarred, criss-crossed with intergenerational traumas that were too easily triggered to be left unprotected. Alice considered the wounds, the hunger for survival that is passed down, repeated, and then passed down again."

"Times like that, I'd feel like I was sinking. And I'd think to myself that my husband, the man I'd fallen in love with at first sight, the man I'd devoted my entire life to, that man was already gone. He'd left us a long time ago."

"And when I finally did get back to work, I was... Different. There was no other way to put it. Motherhood had shifted something fundamental inside of me."

"That's a lie. My forgiveness can absolutely be bought with overpriced holiday drinks, especially if he remembered to get whipped cream on top."

"This was the same mistake so many humans made: believing someone would leap over trauma when it hurt them badly enough."

"Of course you hoped that. Nobody actually helped each other. That's why people had religions, hoping gods would provide help where people refused."

"It's not fair how much we are required to love our children and how little they have to love us in return."

"Back then, I couldn't believe I would ever become an adult. Now I can't believe I'm supposed to stay one forever."

"No. Love is an element." An element. Like air to breathe, earth to stand on.