Paw Javier

“I can feel a better version of me somewhere in there—hidden behind a liver or attached to a bit of spleen within my stunted, childish body—a Libby that’s telling me to get up, do something, grow up, move on. But the meanness usually wins out.”
― Gillian Flynn, Dark Places

“Libby must have marinated in anxious stomach acid for nine months, soaking up all that worry.”
― Gillian Flynn, Dark Places

“Worries find you easily enough without inviting them. With Diane, worries were almost physical beings, leechy creatures with latchhooks for fingers, meant to be vanquished immediately. Diane didn’t worry, that was for less hearty women.”
― Gillian Flynn, Dark Places

“There is no perfection, only beautiful versions of brokenness.”
― Shannon L. Alder