Elisa

“It still makes me vaguely sad, in that faded way, like a scar you press too hard on and the damaged tissue remembers the wound fresh, but just for a second, and then it's gone.”
― Tess Sharpe, The Girls I've Been

“Some traits you can dye away and some names you can forge fresh, but you can't hide from your true self and the lessons you learned in the dark of night.”
― Tess Sharpe, The Girls I've Been

“I don't want to them love, and I've never needed to be loved by them.
I learned very early, the best thing you can expect from them is pain.
And the best thing you can do with a bad man is destroy him.”
― Tess Sharpe, The Girls I've Been

“I hate the whole ''what doesn't kill you makes you stronger'' saying. It's bullshit. Sometimes what doesn't kill you is worse. Sometimes what kills you is preferable. Sometimes what doesn't kill you messes you up so bad it's always a fight to make it through what you're left with. What didn't kill me didn't make me stronger; what didn't kill me made me a victim.
But I made me stronger. I made me a survivor.”
― Tess Sharpe