More on this book
Community
Kindle Notes & Highlights
isn’t fun always a little bit reckless?
When you find someone who sees you in a way no one else does, who understands you and makes you feel like you can’t be whole without them, it wraps you in a vise and makes you forget how to live life without them.
home became the friends that kept showing up, the spaces that welcomed me.
education means choice, and choice means freedom.
Maya acts more like a parent than a sister most of the time. She thinks she’s helping with all her advice,
This school, with all its prestige, was a system run on favors, big and small, like every major institution in this country,
I wish I could tell you success was all hard work and intellect, darling, but it’s not. At least half is luck, timing, and the right mentors.”
travel seemed magical to me; I would always feel that seeing the world was not something to be taken for granted.
How often, in the world, is silence what allows horrible people to get away with their crimes?