"Life is as messy as a bag whose owner never cleans it out. You have no idea when you might reach in and pull out a piece of old trash, and you’re afraid someone is going to look through your bag someday. Maybe your ‘baggage’ is like an old bag, too. You toss it around any which way, not caring how worn it gets or where it lands, and no one notices. You can’t afford a new bag so you carefully and painstakingly hold it so the rough patches don’t show."
I want to die but i want to eat Tteokbokki, Baek Sehee
"How was a friendship any more codependent than a relationship? Why was it admirable when you were twenty-seven but creepy when you were thirty-seven? Why wasn’t friendship as good as a relationship? Why wasn’t it even better? It was two people who remained together, day after day, bound not by sex or physical attraction or money or children or property, but only by the shared agreement to keep going, the mutual dedication to a union that could never be codified. Friendship was witnessing another’s slow drip of miseries, and long bouts of boredom, and occasional triumphs. It was feeling honored by the privilege of getting to be present for another person’s most dismal moments, and knowing that you could be dismal around him in return."
A little life, Hanya Yanagihara
"We are all alone trapped in these bodies and our minds and whatever company we have in this life is only fleeting and superficial."
Jennifer Niven, All the bright places
“You’re so obsessed with finding someone to love you because you can’t love yourself.”
— Unknown
DAISY: I run hot and I always have. I am not going to sit around sweating my ass off just so men can feel more comfortable. It’s not my responsibility to not turn them on. It’s their responsibility to not be an asshole.
Daisy Jones and the Six, Taylor Jenkins Reid
"Death isn't about the person who's dead, it's about the people who are still alive."
Llana Masad, All my mother's lover
"What had happened that night in the Odysseides home was like phantom tide that swept in and out of her mind, etching deeper into the sand with each return. Sometimes she could go weeks without thinking about it, sometimes days, sometimes only hours. But then it would come again: diconnection from the body she fought so hard to strengthen, the suffocating feeling of powerlessness."
Llana Masad, Lore
Llana Masad, All my mother's lovers
she/her🖤🤍💜•Sharing some quotes from the books I read also some thoughts while I do overthinking:-)
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