Awwwtrouble

“I try to stay vigilant because everybody's health and safety depends on it, and also, if I relax now I will fall asleep for the entire rest of my life and wake up dead.”
― Catherine Newman, Sandwich

“She shakes her head, pressing her lips into a line. "It makes me very angry." Her dark eyes look black in the flat light. "Makes me angry still. TO have a place tainted like that...it's another violation on top of the original one. It happens all the time- you go walking somewhere, or swimming or running - whatever it is, your thing, the thing you enjoy - you go to a place, and it's beautiful and unspoiled, and you are doing that thing you love, and then someone - not always a man, I suppose, but usually a man - comes along and transforms it into an ugly place. And you never feel safe there again. And you are never the same again. The place is changed and you are changed, and neither for the better.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Blue Hour

“People who insist that you should be grateful instead of complaining? They maybe don’t understand how much gratitude one might feel about the opportunity to complain.”
― Catherine Newman, Sandwich

“The children’s features shattered me a little bit—as if someone had siphoned love out of me and tattooed it onto someone else’s face.”
― Catherine Newman, Sandwich