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“Home isn't a place. Home is the people who love you. Forever and ever, no matter what.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes

“Home isn't a place. It's not having a bed to come home to, or a yard, or a Christmas tree at the holidays. Home is the people who love you.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Bad Blood

“You can’t put your life on hold for somebody else, you know? Sometimes you just have to do what you have to do to make yourself happy. And if you’re not, like, solid with yourself, how can you help somebody else?”
― Kathleen Glasgow, You'd Be Home Now

“We could all probably be a little more benevolent in life. We all live here, after all. We all share the same mighty good company of the stars at night, and everyone deserves kindness, and survival. Everyone deserves to be seen.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, You'd Be Home Now

“How dare you waste a life you haven’t even lived yet.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, You'd Be Home Now

“Invisibility does that to you. Strips away fancy layers, leaves just the bones and blood. Just enough to get around.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, You'd Be Home Now

“Someone I used to know said that’s the problem with adults. They just see kids as they want them to be, what they aren’t, and not as they are. I think about that all the time. Like, how much time and pain and suffering could be eliminated if you just accepted the kid in front of you and stopped trying to fix them. Maybe there is no “fixing.” Maybe there is just heartbreak and love and trying to help them stay alive, whatever it takes.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, You'd Be Home Now

“Sometimes your life falls to ash and you sift through, waiting for the pain to pass, looking for the remnants in the debris, something to save, when really all you need is right there, inside you.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, You'd Be Home Now

“Now, as then, I don’t know if I fully understand what happens in the novel, but I loved it anyway. Isn’t that strange? To love something you can’t fully grasp?”
― Kathleen Glasgow, You'd Be Home Now

“they should hold your hand when you go out together, no matter what. And they should never walk in front of you. They should walk next to you, because you walk through life together, do you understand?”
― Kathleen Glasgow, You'd Be Home Now

“The thing about being invisible is, you’d think it would feel light and airy and easy, no pressure, but it doesn’t. It’s the heaviest thing I’ve ever known.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, You'd Be Home Now

“You can be around people every day of your life and not really see them, you know? They’re just a collection of things,”
― Kathleen Glasgow, You'd Be Home Now

“but that’s what you do. You get up every day and try to love your people, even if they make it hard. Because what else do you have, in the end.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, You'd Be Home Now

“this: sometimes the waves knock you down and it seems like you won’t have the strength to push back up, but you do, because whatever the water takes down, it gives back. But you have to adapt or die. Now, go swim.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, You'd Be Home Now

“All we can do is love him.” It’s out of my mouth before I can stop it. “But we always loved him and still—” “Emmy.” He takes my hand. “It’s all we can ever do. It’s the one thing we cannot stop doing.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, You'd Be Home Now

“We were all young once. And we had our nervous breakdowns and our cancers and our heartbreaks and our anger and we hid them and pretended they didn’t exist and we moved on because everyone said we should. And we’re not one iota better for it. Not one. Let them have this. Just this. Let them be tender, Walter.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, You'd Be Home Now

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do With your one wild and precious life?”
― Kathleen Glasgow, You'd Be Home Now

“That your whole life, it seems like no one ever really sees you, they just see what they want to see, what they need to see. They never see the holes inside you.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, You'd Be Home Now

“The thing about adults is, we’re always trying to keep kids safe. That’s our job. We want you to have a good life and get a good education and be a good person and do good things and sometimes, frankly, we fuck it up. Your childhood is like one long rehearsal, performing a script we wrote for you in the middle of the night that makes no sense to you but seems perfectly coherent to us.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, You'd Be Home Now

“He's not the hero and he's not the enemy and he's not a god. He's just a boy. And I'm just a girl, a girl who needs to pick up her own pieces and put them back together herself.”
― Amber Smith, The Way I Used to Be

“I don't know who I am right now. But I know who I'm not. And I like that.”
― Amber Smith, The Way I Used to Be

“I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what makes you happy,but it's not really like that, you know? It's not that simple.”
― Amber Smith, The Way I Used to Be

“All you have to do is act like you’re normal and okay, and people start treating you that way.”
― Amber Smith, The Way I Used to Be

“Maybe He'll get what he deserves. Maybe Not. Maybe I'll never find it in my heart to forgive him. And maybe there's nothing wrong with that,either. All those maybes swimming around my head make me think that "maybe" could just be another word for hope.”
― Amber Smith, The Way I Used to Be

“Because whatever he thinks I am, I'm not. And whatever he thinks my body is, it isn't. My Body is a torture chamber. It's a fucking crime scene.”
― Amber Smith, The Way I Used to Be

“All these maybes swimming around my head make me think that "maybe" could just be another word for hope.”
― Amber Smith, The Way I Used to Be

“No, can’t cry. Because there’s nothing to cry about. Because it was just a dream. A bad dream. A nightmare. Not real. Not real. Not real. That’s what I keep thinking: NotRealNotRealNotReal. Repeat, repeat, repeat. Like a mantra. Like a prayer.”
― Amber Smith, The Way I Used to Be

“. And I really wonder how people get to be normal like this. How they just seem to know what to say and do, automatically.”
― Amber Smith, The Way I Used to Be

“Because, in my heart, I know, I’m not who he thinks I am. Not even close. And he’s not who I want him to be, either.”
― Amber Smith, The Way I Used to Be

“But I'm not her anymore. I don't even want to be her anymore. That girl was so naive and stupid--the kind of girl who could let something like this happen to her.”
― Amber Smith, The Way I Used to Be