Ramona

“No one survives the future, of course. Over the years I have rushed it, run from it, tried to shunt myself from it's track. That these efforts did not succeed does not mean that I regret them.”
― Kathleen Rooney, Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk

“You're both the fire and the water that extinguishes it. You're the narrator, the protagonist, and the sidekick. You're the storyteller and the story told. You are somebody's something, but you are also your you.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“Bitterness is poison, yes, but I hold a flask of it to my lips and drink.”
― Janet Benton, Lilli de Jong

“The minute you see yourself you're forced out of your head and into your body, forced to reckon with yourself as a thing that takes up space in the world, that others can see and react to, that has a story with a beginning, middle, and end that intersects with other peoples stories. A mirror gives you perspective.”
― Kathleen Rooney, Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk