Laurel

“Secure friends make you feel safe. You’re scared to tell someone you experience bouts of depression, or broke ties with your great-aunt, or put ketchup on your eggs, and your secure friends make you feel loved regardless. Researchers found that secure people report being more accepting of others and better listeners. In chapter 1, we discussed how friends can make us feel human again when we experience shame. Secure friends do this better than anyone else. They provide us with friendships that heal.”
― Marisa G. Franco, Platonic: How the Science of Attachment Can Help You Make—and Keep—Friends

“To what and to whom are you committed? What do you long for? And what is worth traveling through the unknown to reach?”
― Prentis Hemphill, What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World

“I do not need to contain my appetites.

What is a monster but a creature of agency?”
― Kat Dunn, Hungerstone

“We commit to our own healing in part because the realization of what we are dreaming of rests on it. It is our responsibility to one another to do our internal work, not so that we feel good alone but to stay an active part of the whole and to refuse to pass down to the next generation what pain we've accrued.”
― Prentis Hemphill, What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World