Mandy

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
― Jen Sincero, You Are a Badass®: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life

“But two years into our parties, I surveyed the scene from the corner and wondered, Why are we having these parties? What were we making, coming together like that? We were trying to prove that we had everything because we had parties, but I began to feel like we had nothing but parties. If anyone from the future could look back on what we were building, I was sure they would say, That could only have been built by slaves.”
― Sheila Heti, How Should a Person Be?

“Women’s fiction” doesn’t sound like anything but a slur to my ears.”
― Sheila Heti

“If I look back I am lost.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones