Ruth

“I've never before understood that I too can be needed and wanted. I've been the youngest child for so long that I never seen myself any other way.”
― Clare Morrall, Astonishing Splashes of Colour

“We can pursue our true wants, Mill writes, only when doing so harms no one to whom we are obliged.”
― Janet Benton, Lilli de Jong

“what do you do when you build yourself—only to realize you built yourself with the wrong things? You rip it up and start again. That is the work of your teenage years—to build up and tear down and build up again, over and over, endlessly, like speeded-up film of cities during boom times and wars. To be fearless, and endless, in your reinventions—to keep twisting on nineteen, going bust, and dealing in again, and again. Invent, invent, invent.”
― Caitlin Moran, How to Build a Girl

“You are going to love some of your characters, because they are you or some facet of you, and you are going to hate some of your characters for the same reason. But no matter what, you are probably going to have to let bad things happen to some of the characters you love or you won't have much of a story. Bad things happen to good characters, because our actions have consequences, and we do not all behave perfectly all the time.”
― Ann Lamott