fireworks

"No, she would never repeat her mother's mistakes, and she certainly wouldn't let herself be beholden to a man.....

....'The thing about education,' her father told her the day of her college graduation, 'is that no one can take it away from you. Everything else can be stolen. Everything else can be lost.' " - Zaina Arafat, You Exist Too Much

(aka the book I would marry if it were a man because this is possibly the only book that has ever read ME while I read it)

there are a few people who ask me why I blog if no one reads what I write and omg

this blog is for ME

For my documentation of the most mundane

The days that start with interviews and end with tacos

The days that are peppered with tears

And the days that end in fireworks

"her response seemed somehow reductive.... Acknowledgement + Approval - Mother's Unconditional Love - Attraction. Good luck finding someone to love you like I did. "

It's so unflinchingly honest, I am in love 

Unconditionally