Kira K

“It's fair to say that nobody could really remember what happened at the beginning. But when you throw hormones and the stress of school and peer pressure into the mix, fiction becomes fact. Rumours and gossip become truths.”
― Candice Carty-Williams, Notting Hill Carnival (Quick Reads): A West Side Story

“Parents send their children to us for six hours a day, most days of most weeks. and we have a duty of care over each and every one of them. This is going to be very challenging indeed. People will make judgements, terrible things will be said and written, we will be accused of every oversight, every folly in the book. But we must be seen to stay calm and professional. We must be honest, to acknowledge if we could have done more, and make changes accordingly. We must rise above it. We must carry on teaching. We have no option. The parents need to feel like they can absolutely trust us. The students need to feel safe.”
― Hazel Barkworth, Heatstroke

“I don't really think there was a reason he got so ill. That stuff just happens, like diseases or cancer. So it's not his fault. Actually, I think it was probably my fault it got so bad. When I noticed that something was off with him, I didn't tell my parents and I didn't ask him what was wrong. I didn't talk to him enough. I didn't do enough.”
― Alice Oseman, This Winter

“It’s not like seven weeks in hospital made him magically okay again.
I know I’m not an expert or anything, but from what I’ve learnt over the past few months, mental illnesses take a long time to go away completely … if they ever do.
This is probably only the start of a long journey.”
― Alice Oseman, Heartstopper: Volume Four