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“Rissa’s cool assessment crawls over my face. “You’re looking better.” I brush a palm over my cheek that’s still slightly bruised and swollen. “Yeah,” I say simply. She never asked what happened, and I didn’t offer up the information. But she knows. Women always do.”
― Raven Kennedy, Gleam

“I thought I might see how long you had to be a Catholic before you became a nun, so I asked my mother, thinking she'd know the best way to go about it.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar: A Novel Illustrated New Ed Edition

“It mightn't make me any happier, but it would be one more little pebble of efficiency among all the other pebbles.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“One person’s pain doesn’t negate another’s. Our heartaches are not competition, but the bridge to empathy. So that we can look at one another and know that on some level, we understand. That’s one beautiful thing about grief, I think. That sometimes, we can find someone in the world to look at from the other side of the bridge of our torments and know that we are not alone.”
― Raven Kennedy, Glow