Early

“It was easier to ask for forgiveness than it was to get permission.”
― Cheryl Rainfield, Scars

“My mother and her raised fist flashes in front of my eyes. I shrink away from Riley, shutting myself off, bracing myself.

There is the person people see on the outside, and then there is the person on the inside and then, even farther down, is that other buried person, a naked and silent creature, not used to light. I have it and now, here, I see it: Riley's hidden person.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“They were there, just in case--and it scares me that I might kind of understand”
― Amber Smith, The Way I Used to Be

“In the great scheme of things, we were nothing more than two people who had passed each other while walking through their lives. Couples broke up every day, and we were not special in that regard either. You cried yourself to sleep then woke up and went to work. When you repeated the cycle enough times, one day you woke up and suddenly it didn’t matter all that much. New people walked alongside you and eventually, you forgot the ones you left behind.”
― Ella Maise, Marriage for One