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“I can’t live like your mother. I can’t tolerate a man like your father.”
― Susie Tate, Daydreamer

“He’s your family. Family is important. You’ve got all these threads between you in families, weaving in and out, strengthening you all as a whole, giving everyone a safety net, a sense of belonging. Don’t risk cutting any of the threads. Not when your sister could be the one to fall through the hole it creates.”
― Susie Tate, Gold Digger

“Lottie and Ollie were two of my favourite people. Just because I couldn’t express emotion in the normal way, didn’t mean I didn’t feel it. If anything, I felt too much, and I’d been devastated by their unhappiness, and my inability to do anything helpful to heal the rift.”
― Susie Tate, Outlier

“Silence had seemed to be the best option for me. Anything I said was usually met with irritation or outright hostility,”
― Susie Tate, Outlier