youngadultquoted:

I learned years ago that it’s okay to do this. To seek out small spaces for myself, to stop and imagine myself alone. People are too much sometimes. Friends, acquaintances, enemies, strangers. It doesn’t matter; they all crowd. Even if they’re still all the way across the room, they crowd. I take a moment of silence and think: I am here. I am okay.

— Francesca Zappia, Eliza and Her Monsters

motivational:

All things are difficult before they are easy. -Thomas Fuller