Tabitha Sampson

“Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain. It was that day that I knew I wanted to tell the story of my family. Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained.”
― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

“you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

“Hearing this I felt myself splitting away from myself, something I've been doing for years, a false calm that floated somewhere above my real mind, which I could sit inside when dealing with my mother.”
― Elizabeth Joy Arnold, When We Were Friends

“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”
― Ernest Hemingway