Amanda

“I've always felt the pressure to excel at everything I possibly could, even if that pressure is usually self-inflicted. I am a Jedi when it comes to pushing myself to do/be/achieve more. It's nobody's fault but my own. Basically, I'm the drama.”
― Stassi Schroeder, You Can't Have It All: The Basic B*tch Guide to Taking the Pressure Off

“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

“The nicest thing you can ever do for another human being is see them, and really see them, at that. To be understood is one of most base desires we as people have,”
― Jessa Hastings, The Conditions of Will

“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