"I was always afraid to take, so I gave. It was not a virtue. It was a disguise."

~ Anais Nin

And, in my darkest fantasies, I am the picture of passivity

~ Florence + the Machine

you can't trust a mirror as far as you can throw it / so your face might be a gargoyle the next time you show it

~ Tucker Zimmerman

“That is in the past now,” she said. “What people think, what people don’t think. I will decide what is fair now.”

~ Inanna by Emily H. Wilson