Katie Chisholm

“The minute she saw her mum or heard her mum’s voice, she’d just feel irrationally annoyed and then all the stuff she hadn’t been able to say or do all day at school — because at school she was known as a Nice Person and once you had a reputation for being nice you couldn’t mess with it — came spitting out of her.”
― Lisa Jewell, Then She Was Gone

“All I know is that it'll never be safe for me to rely on someone else again, to need constant reassurance of who I am and who I might someday be. I can love him, but I can't depend on him to be my backbone. I can't be my own person if I constantly require someone else to hold me together.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me