Amy

“Not for the first time Marianne thinks cruelty does not only hurt the victim, but the perpetrator also, and maybe more deeply and more permanently. You learn nothing very profound about yourself simply by being bullied; but by bullying someone else you learn something you can never forget.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“If you don’t worry about something until it’s already a problem,” said Rosie, “that’s not worry. That’s observation.”
― Laurie Frankel, This Is How It Always Is

“I don’t know how they catch the birds. I know the Goliath Fucking Bird-Eating Spider can’t fly because if it could, it would have a different name entirely. We would call it “sir” because it would be the dominant species on the planet. None of us would leave the house unless a Goliath Fucking Flying Bird-Eating Spider said it was okay.”
― David Wong, This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don’t Touch It

“You don’t need to have it all. You only need to figure out how much is enough.”
― Danya Kukafka, Notes on an Execution