den

“Because we’re always in pain, we know exactly what it means to hurt somebody else.”
― Mieko Kawakami, Heaven

“Cancer must feel like such a betrayal, knowing that somewhere deep in your body you're manufacturing tiny bombs that detonate and catch fire”
― Mary H.K. Choi, Yolk

“There was more than one type of perfectionist. And that I qualified because the kind of perfectionist I was, was the kind that abandoned everything if I wasn’t good enough at it. And that’s why I couldn’t finish tasks.”
― Mary H.K. Choi, Yolk

“I know that I should try to forget you but the thought of you ignites the part of me that wants unattainable things like beauty and thunder, hurtling towards a sense of something I cannot explain.”
― Jessica Andrews, Milk Teeth