Heather

“We poison ourselves and we poison each other. A cruel remark, the turn of a shoulder, the indifference to someone's pain. I remember how often I flinched under my father's comments, but I never realized how much it could fester, infiltrate in its insidious, toxic way, through his life my life, a family. A culture.”
― Judy Reene Singer, In the Shadow of Alabama

“Child, you're just flying blind, and it's okay. That's how life is, darlin'. We're all flying blind.”
― Judy Reene Singer, In the Shadow of Alabama

“You're not a better person if you eat carrots, and you're not a fuckup if you eat pie.”
― Jes Baker, Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls: A Handbook for Unapologetic Living

“You never know what you can do," he says, "until you get it done.”
― Judy Reene Singer, In the Shadow of Alabama