Ella Thorp

“A child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“Every time people said I was pretty, I thought of everything ugly swarming beneath my clothes.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“No one is born evil. As Winnicott put it, “A baby cannot hate the mother, without the mother first hating the baby.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“All the untidy activity continues, awful but cheerful.”
― Elizabeth Bishop, The Complete Poems 1927-1979