“Hopelessness can be contagious, but hope can be too. And there is no medicine to match it.”
― Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family
― Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family
“My body is not my own any more. They have stamped their names all over it.”
― Asking For It
― Asking For It
“I am not falling apart. I am being ripped at the seams, my insides torn out until I am hollow.”
― Asking For It
― Asking For It
“Dying is only one thing to be sad about, Mitch. Living unhappily is something else”—”
― Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family
― Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family
“I like it better when my room is pitch black, when the dark is so thick it swallows me up and I feel as if I could drown in it.”
― Asking For It
― Asking For It
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