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“We heal, mostly, but even scars can bleed.”
― Dot Hutchison, The Vanishing Season

“The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.”
― Oyinkan Braithwaite, My Sister, the Serial Killer

“Hope is a demon. It toys with you, it flirts, and then when you start to trust it, it vanishes.”
― Rose Carlyle, The Girl in the Mirror

“When people feel insecure, they create a grand self-image in an attempt to compensate for what is lacking internally. They present this façade to the world in order to hide the emptiness they feel, thus falling in love with the idea of themselves. But, if you threaten their self-image—threaten to expose the thing they love most, themselves—they will react, often in a hostile manner.”
― Tiffany D. Jackson, Allegedly