“I do not pray,” he said. “But I begged for you.”

—King of Battle and Blood (Scarlett St. Clair)

“Eventually something you love is going to be taken away. And then you will fall to the floor crying. And then, however much later, it is finally happening to you; you’re falling to the floor crying thinking, “I am falling to the floor crying,” but there’s an element of the ridiculous to it — you knew it would happen and, even worse, while you’re on the floor crying you look at the place where the wall meets the floor and you realise you didn’t paint it very well.”

-Richard Silken

"I know that I don’t belong on this planet, because if I did, I would know how to be here. I would know how to be human. I feel like a lost and confused child who is being forced to steer her way through a very adult world. I often wonder if this is what it’s going to feel like forever, if I will always see life through this veil of despair, because if this is life, then I don’t want it."

I've Never Been (Un) Happier - Shaheen Bhatt

With ecofeminism, the political focus turns outwards. Its first premiss is that the ‘material’ resourcing of women and of nature are structurally interconnected in the capitalist patriarchal system.

Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva - Ecofeminism

"You should never apologize for existing, Lev. Not even to all those people out there who wish you didn't.” ― UnSouled

“This is heavy. What have you got in here?”

“My emotional support book. I mean, I know I probably won’t have time to read, but I like to have it with me just in case.”

- Elizabeth Helen, Woven by Gold

If you are suffering, or someone else is suffering, that's sad. But alas, it's not particularly special. We don't suffer only because "politicians are dimwitted" or "the system is corrupt", or because you and I, like amost everyone else, can legitimately describe outselves, in some way, as a victim of something or someone. It is because we are born human that we are guaranteed a good dose of suffering. Rearing kids is hard, work is hard, aging, sickness and death are hard [...] doing all that totally on your own, without the benefit of [...] the psychological insights of the greatest psychologists, only makes it harder.

Jordan B. Peterson - 12 Rules for Life

"Ein Lachen zu fälschen &' Glücklichsein vorzutäuschen, ist so viel einfacher, als zu erklären, warum man innerlich so leer ist."

-Wenn ich uns verliere, Antonia Wesseling

I've always thought that a good book should be either the entry point inward, to learn about yourself, or a door outward, to open you up to new words.

-Taylor Jenkins Reid

“they missed” had me giggling like a child

Reflecting on the truth that our strength is revealed in how we rise after facing adversity. Share this with someone who needs to hear this.