Sarah Freese

“I was never the one just having fun. I was the one anticipating consequences.”
― Emily Henry, Funny Story

“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

“So I stopped showing it when I was upset, just went along with whatever she said and did. And eventually, I just sort of...stopped getting upset. Stopped feeling the bad stuff.”
― Emily Henry, Funny Story

“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