It’s a strange thing, how pain becomes a background hum in the life of a woman, so quiet and constant that we don’t always notice it...

I’ve always thought "seize the day" was bullshit. It’s one of those things movies and authors have been selling us for decades, making us...

I spent most of my life believing that independence was the final proof of adulthood. A refusal to need. A refusal to be beholden. I...

People love to put you in a box. Mine was obvious from early on. When I was eight, I learned the word “feminism” and immediately decided...

One month from today I will leave Reims—and France. In a few months London will take over, six months there, then six in Brussels. After...

I’ve always believed in an invisible system behind things. Not fate, not karma—something subtler. A kind of emotional economy. You give...

It hit me in the most ordinary moment: sitting on the metro, headphones in, pretending I wasn’t there. That’s what we do, right? We board...

Ci sono persone che non perdi davvero, le lasci in sospeso. Come quei libri che inizi e poi abbandoni a metà, non perché non ti...

I’ve been that person—the one who smirks when someone names Harry Potter as their favorite book or rolls their eyes when someone says...

At some point, you learn to shape yourself into whatever will make you easiest to love. Not consciously—there’s no defining moment, no...

Non ho mai fatto la maturità. Non ho mai vissuto la tensione elettrica della prima prova, l’ansia che si scioglie nelle risate nervose...

Sometimes I wonder if the most profound kind of pain is the one you’ve never met. That thought wouldn’t leave me the other night as I...

She’s already there when I walk in, sitting at a small table by the window, fingers wrapped around a cup she hasn’t touched yet. She...

I was 13 when I watched Robin and Barney let go of each other. But wasn’t just a breakup. It was a moment that cracked open a corner of...

I’m always rushing. Through everything. Exams, dinners, conversations, entire seasons of my life. I feel it—a certain push to be done, to...

I always wash my dishes as soon as I finish eating. It’s one of those unspoken rules I’ve followed my whole life, not because anyone told...

There are people in your life you don’t think much about until they’re gone. Not the ones who leave you devastated, and not the ones you...

We like to think we’re fighting for something. That we’re standing on the right side of history, loud and clear. But if I’m being honest,...

The first time I came back home after moving abroad, I was met with a wall of observations I hadn’t asked for. “You’re different.” They...

Some people learn early that humor is a kind of camouflage. It’s not something they choose so much as something that chooses them—a way...