Selena

“The children, the veal, they stand very still because tenderness depends on how little the world touches you. To stay tender, the weight of your life cannot lean on your bones.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“It made me feel silenced, lonely, and far away from myself, a feeling that I believe, next to extreme nausea sans vomiting, is the depth of human misery.”
― Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"

“Once you'd resolved to go, there was nothing to it at all.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle

“We walk around carrying Closed signs around our necks while we press Open to our chests and wonder why the doorbell never rings.”
― Shinji Moon, The Anatomy of Being