Emily

“And I know I struggle with rejection, so I don’t give people the chance to reject me. I search for physical connections with people to feel validated, because I need someone else to prove to me that I’m wanted. So I call myself self aware because I know those things about myself, but in reality, I don’t know anything about myself. I say I’m my own person, but every choice I make is because of something someone else did. That isn’t being my own person.”
― Hannah Grace, After Who? Artist Michael Jackson

“It’s really hard admitting you’re the person standing in the way of your own happiness, but I realized I was the problem a while ago. I just didn’t know where to start. You ever feel like you’ve made something your entire personality? So much so you don’t know how to disconnect yourself from it?”
― Hannah Grace, Wildfire

“But secrecy as survival has been a big part of my life. It goes back to childhood, of course.”
― Alex Scott, How (Not) To Be Strong

“Reading was the most fun I could have while making the least amount of noise, and I always wanted to avoid drawing attention to myself when he was likely to start an argument over something.”
― Hannah Grace