Sarah Freese

“This book is for everyone who has been told they are not broken, when they are holding up their body full of cracks as evidence. For everyone who has been told there is nothing wrong this them, when they know there is something very wrong with them, everyone who has been told they are too sensitive. That they need to do more exercise, or less. That they just need to get outside, reconnect with nature. That they need to take up yoga or prayer. That they only appear to be ill because they are too fat or too thin. That they are making themselves ill, consciously, or unconsciously, with their wrong behavior. That they need to eat more or less or differently. That they have the wrong attitude. That they just don't want to be well.”
― Polly Atkin, Some of Us Just Fall: On Nature and Not Getting Better

“They all do, I think. You are in all of my happiest places. You are where my mind goes when it needs to be soothed.”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place

“Blame is an endless circle.

And I seemed to be standing in the center of it.”
― Simon Jimenez, The Spear Cuts Through Water

“Men have always been permitted in fiction and in life to simply be what they are, no matter how dark or terrifying that might be. But with a woman, we expect an answer, a reason.”
― C.J. Leede, Maeve Fly