tan [dying just from trying to seem cool]

“Judgment from strangers, fickle as paper planes Unable to know your story, we suffer the same fate Clear mirrors won’t display your desires Outer shells are no reflection of the inner core”
― Alexis Patton, Us Dark Few

“Isn’t it crazy how the fate of the human population is entirely dependent on women in pain?”
― I.I.E., Dear Ana

“I lived in the golden age of social media, where men and women, boys and girls, and children and adults all loved to glamorize and profit from this troubled state of mind. They documented their tears and the hours they laid in bed doing nothing in an aesthetically filmed fifteen-second video, with a pop song in the background, and ten different hashtags intentionally chosen to prey against their target audience. It was a fetish. A trend to be mentally disturbed and people were so quick to hop on the train and get their brief moment of relatable content.”
― I.I.E., Dear Ana

“He’d always been much prettier than anyone had the right to be.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Dragon Republic