Danuta

“I was trying to be good. I had always been trying to be good. I ran myself ragged; cared dutifully for my family, friends, and colleagues; punished my body so that it stayed a certain size; kept my temper in check. What would happen if I just…stopped?”
― Elise Loehnen, On Our Best Behavior: The Price Women Pay to Be Good

“That is what true love is. True love is saying to someone “Forget about us. We will be okay,” when it might not even be true, when the last thing you want is to be forgotten.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Forever, Interrupted

“To even attempt it, liars must believe themselves to be cleverer than the person they’re lying to,”
― Stuart Turton, The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

“A home isn’t just a house, a collection of bricks and boards held together by concrete and nails. It’s more emotional than that. A home is safety, security. The place you go back to when the curfew clock strikes nine.”
― Stacy Willingham, A Flicker in the Dark