Unlikable women refuse to give in to that temptation. They are, instead, themselves. They accept the consequences of their choices, and those consequ… - Roxane Gay

During a tattoo, pain is constant and sometimes it lasts hours, but it doesn’t necessarily register the same way pain normally does. I am not to be trusted on this. I do not register pain as most people do, which is to say, my tolerance is high. It is probably too high. But the pain of a tattoo is something to which you have to surrender because once you’ve started, you cannot really go back or you’ll be left with something not only permanent but unfinished. I enjoy the irrevocability of that circumstance. You have to allow yourself this pain. You have chosen this suffering, and at the end of it, your body will be different. Maybe your body will feel more like yours.

I am not the same scared girl that I was. I have let the right ones in.

He's the kind of man who gets ideas but is largely unable to follow through on those ideas.