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“Abuse is also when your personality is attacked, not just your body. Abuse is feeling like you constantly have to walk on eggshells around the person you're supposed to love. Abuse is being cut off from your friends, even if you could never prove it was their idea you did it. Abuse is being made to feel you're going crazy. Abuse is being lured in with grand promises and wild declarations of love that can never be sustained. Abuse is being pushed into doing sexual things you're not comfortable with. That is also called rape, another word that has taken me some time to feel belongs to me. Abuse is intentionally humiliating you. Abuse is constantly blaming you for everything, and never them.”
― Holly Bourne, The Places I've Cried in Public

“Naiva drömmar är kärlekens sista försvarslinje så vi intalar på något sätt alltid oss själva att inga fruktansvärda tragedier ska drabba just dem vi älskar och att just våra människor ska undkomma ödet. För deras skull drömmer vi om evigt liv, önskar oss superkrafter och försöker bygga tidsmaskiner. Vi hoppas, herregud, som vi hoppas.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Winners

“Alfie was consistent, and, because of that, I wasn't crazy. I was calm, I was chill - I was all the things you wanted me to be, Reese. But I was incapable of being those things with you. The more you wanted me to be that "chill" girl - the more you made it clear that your love for me depended on it - the less chill and more crazy I got. Because you weren't consistent.

One day you’d be all over me, making my anxiety disappear, being kind and considerate and amazing and everything I’d always wanted. “God I love you, I love you so much,” you’d tell everyone at the lunch table, and the rest of the band would groan while I glowed. But then, later that afternoon, we’d walk past a girl and you’d say, “Wow, she’s so pretty,” then get in a mood with me if I dared to be upset.

I’m starting to realize that craziness may not always come from within. I’m starting to think lows aren’t worth the highs - not in love. Not in something where the most important thing is to feel safe. Consistency is underrated.”
― Holly Bourne, The Places I've Cried in Public

“Jag minns den där kvällen
En av de sista före smällen
För en liten stund var du den
Vi drömt om att få se igen
Din kropp lirade
Och ditt hjärta vilade
Och du var allt du ville bli
Du var glad och trygg och fri
Jag vet inte var du är nu min vän
Men jag hoppas att du är på isen än”
― Fredrik Backman, The Winners