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Have It Your Way

Anyone who can fail to rejoice in the enticing squish/crunch of a fast-food French fry, or the delight of a warmed piece of grocery-store donut, is living half a life.

– Lucy Knisley

We Can’t Talk At All

They may take you for a fool, promise to shower you with the world, use their canny devastating tongue to manipulate and dominate your mind, but it’s better to put them bullshit people at arms length rather than falling into the arms of infidelity.

– Michael Bassey Johnson

Those Moments You Can’t Get Back

Life is not made up of minutes, hours, days or years, but of moments. Nothing is permanently perfect. But there are perfect moments.

– Alex Haditaghi

M E T A P H Y S I C A L

The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without: to follow one’s own path, not that of the crowd.

– Nicholas Tharcher

Please Don’t Speak, You’ll Only Lie

Sense Of Belonging

“What happens to a Black girl who is too anxious to ever feel like magic?”

– Jae Nichelle

Do What You Know

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
-Mark Twain