Amanda

“Conscious feelings are present on the surface, and you make decisions around them, but subconscious feelings exist under the surface, and they dictate your decisions too, arguably even more so, but often you only realize that in retrospect.”
― Jessa Hastings, The Conditions of Will

“Everyone moves around me these days like I’m made of glass. Like one wrong look and I’ll shatter. Little do they know that it’s too late…All of me already is all shattered. A mosaic of cracks and agony.”
― Jessa Hastings, Magnolia Parks: Into the Dark

“But that’s not how pain works… You ignore it and it just sinks down deeper. It lodges itself in the corners of our memories, hangs off tree branches on Callawassie Drive. It hides under the pews in the back row of the church. It gets caught in a pile of sheets no one knew what to do with.”
― Jessa Hastings, The Conditions of Will

“The past had a way of lingering in the body, tucking into brain folds and between molars and under ribs. Unfairly so.”
― Morgan Dick, Favorite Daughter