“How can you care about anything when you know every goddamn thing?”— Dave Chappelle, scrapsfromtheloft.com
“When we are the children of narcissistic parents, emotionally abusive people fit the profile of what our subconscious has been primed to seek. Yet they often come disguised as our saviors.”— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com
“Gaslighting exhausts a victim's internal resources so that they are unable to self-validate.”— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com
“After a lifetime of wishing you were a different sort of person living a different sort of life, you will one day be walking down to the train, look at your feet on the street and think: I am where I want to be.”— Molly Guy, vogue.com
“The biggest gift for any writer in the world, is to be read, and for the words they have written to help and move people.”— Nikita Gill, shopcatalog.com
“You don’t always love you. I mean, I don’t always love me. I mean, I don’t know. I’m confusing my Yous and Is and sometimes writing about myself turns into this amorphous blob and there’s nothing poetic about it. Just scattered. And messy. A lot like me, actually.”— Ari Eastman, medium.com
“I chose fairytales and Goddesses in Wild Embers because I wanted to focus on the woman as a whole, the idea of the woman being flawed instead of the idea that women must be perfect by being silent and dutiful as has been put forth by fairytales of old.”— Nikita Gill, shopcatalog.com
“Many digital media companies with sky-high valuations based on a bad set of assumptions also hungrily eyed TV deals, where the real money supposedly is. This looks increasingly like a Hail Mary strategy.”— Lucia Moses, digiday.com
“We do not face a simple choice of digital or analog. That is the false logic of the binary code that computers are programmed with, which ignores the complexity of life in the real world.”— David Sax, nytimes.com
“I am learning what it is like to stand up for myself. And it is the most liberating feeling ever.”— Nikita Gill, shopcatalog.com
“I told my therapist ‘I’m not really a person, I’m more just a collection of ideas.”— John Mayer, twitter.com
“If you're broken right now, I need you to remember you are still incredible and someone loves you even when you think you're unloveable.”— Nikita Gill, twitter.com
“To be born human is to be born with capacity to beat back this loneliness the way light conquers darkness, day conquers night and gravity conquers flight.”— John Gorman, thoughtcatalog.com
“No one’s hand will fit quite like yours. No one makes me deliciously intimidated. No one looks at me the way you do. Please be my last love, for I cannot endure anymore.”— Michelle Stojkov, thoughtcatalog.com
“I have so much undying respect and love and appreciation for my friends. The friend zone is the most noble and highly ranked zone in my heart.”— Heidi Priebe, twitter.com