Brooke

“There is an anxiety in being yourself, though. There is the haunting question of "What if?" always lingering. What if who I am will never be enough? What if I will never be right enough for someone?”
― Roxane Gay, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

“Oh, every person is a book with chapters. Some are glorious and some are dark and ugly. Every person survives something.”
― Deb Caletti, A Heart in a Body in the World

“Could it be that we matter?”
― Patrisse Khan-Cullors, When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir

“Maybe we all walk around assuming everyone is interpreting the world the same way we are, and being surprised when they aren't, and that's the loneliness and confusion of the human experience in a nutshell.”
― Mary Laura Philpott, I Miss You When I Blink: Essays