Samantha

“Um, are you okay? I can’t imagine what it must be like, coming back here after so many years.” “I’m fine.” “Really?” He exhaled sharply. “No…not really. But it’s easier to push all of that aside for the moment and deal with what needs to be done right now. Know what I mean?” I let out an ungainly snort. “Do I know what it’s like to push uncomfortable feelings as far down as I possibly can and live my life in a state of constant denial and repression? Nah, no idea.”
― Rachel Rener, Linked

“I’m tired of watching my words and watching my actions. I’m fucking done being careful so that other people don’t have to be.”
― Laura Thalassa, Famine

“But depending on how pissed you are, I’ll happily pretend.”
― K.F. Breene, Sin & Salvation

“They were days filled with an innocence I didn’t understand until years after I’d lived them. I yearned for their simplicity again.”
― Brenda K. Davies, A Tempest of Monsters