Tabitha Sampson

“What I'd been missing was a wanderlust that came from letting go?”
― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

“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

“Like someone who has survived a gun-shot, the wound had been closing, closing - braiding into a scar for eight long years.”
― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

“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