Francesca, 20
gemini sun|capricorn moon
no longer interested in men. I am, however interested in the pursuit of beauty and where achieving that could get me. I’m entirely fixated on myself. Vanity is the master key to all doors.
1qra
unguardedlykiy
All my teenage years, I had bottled up anger and grief and promised myself I'd never cry but when I sat down with her hands in my hand and looked her in the eye, all the anger turned into tears. I sobbed for hours and she sat there, rubbing my back. That's when I saw. Growing up is also tearing down walls, it's also letting go of the anger.
-Ritika Jyala, excerpt from The Flesh I Burned
