Maame

by Jessica George

I see that they don’t make an effort to recycle, so sadly they themselves are trash.

Still, that doesn’t change the fact that although I didn’t think I’d be rich, I expected to be happy and the failure to do so has left me gasping for air most of the day.

You don’t want a boyfriend who isn’t racist, Maddie. You need a boyfriend who is actively anti-racist.

I cut the conversation off there because the way I see it, apologies only benefit the beggar. They get a clear conscience, and I get a sequence of hollow words incapable of changing anything.

A person’s troubles are not measured by the size of those troubles, but by how much they weigh on the individual carrying them.

“I believe in two dominant introvert types. Those who have always enjoyed their own company and those who have grown to prefer it because they weren’t given much of a choice. Which do you think you fit into?”