Nancy •͙͙✧⃝•͙͙✩ͯ {Ramadan hiatus}

“It's cruel, really, how the world tends to present its most beautiful parts to you when you're so profoundly sad.”
― Ann Liang, I Am Not Jessica Chen

“It's so easy to fall into the assumption that anything someone else gains is something you lose. To think of success as some lavish party with only a limited number of invites. To convince yourself that if you could only make it to a certain point in the distance, you'll finally find a place to rest. To feel like there's always more than you can do. But I mean, look what's being done to us - to our self-esteem, to our pride, to our bodies. We're exhausted and on the verge of breaking down at any second and... somehow we're expected to just keep going.”
― Ann Liang, I Am Not Jessica Chen

“What a strange girl you are," she said quietly. "To behold a rose and percieve only its thorns, never the bloom.”
― Tahereh Mafi, This Woven Kingdom

“I’ve always wanted that: to be looked up at, to be known by people I’ve never even spoken to before, to be special, distinct, standing up on the tallest, brightest platform. But only now do I realize that when you’re out in the open, alone under the lights, and everyone else is in the darkness, you make for such a terribly easy target.”
― Ann Liang, I Am Not Jessica Chen