Kate

“We curse everything, for we are cursed, and we have no arms to shelter her and no lips to press to her hair and above all no words to tell her that we know loss and we know pain and if they were monsters we could fight we would have slain them in her name long ago like the heroes of old. But we are not a hero. We are cursed.”
― Meagan Spooner, Hunted

“When you stop striving to be seen as a good wife, friend, employee, mother or daughter, it gives you permission to realize that you are a good person not because of what you can give or provide, but because of who you are. Part of boundary setting is realizing your worth is intrinsic. We need to let go of the societal messages we have”
― Michelle Elman, The Joy of Being Selfish: Why You Need Boundaries and How to Set Them

“To ask, "Is my anger legitimate?" is similar to asking, "do I have the right to be thirsty?”
― Michelle Elman, The Joy of Being Selfish: Why you need boundaries and how to set them

“We have romanticized needing another human, when I believe the most romantic thing is not needing someone but wanting them around anyway.”
― Michelle Elman, The Joy of Being Selfish: Why you need boundaries and how to set them