Robin Plan

“Don't cry any more, she tells herself. Just do one thing at a time. Get from hour to hour and day to day like a frog jumping lily pads.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Heart Goes Last

“But some people can’t tell where it hurts. They can’t calm down. They can’t ever stop howling.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“She stubs out her cigarette in the brown glass ashtray, then settles herself against him, ear to his chest. She likes to hear his voice this way, as if it begins not in his throat but in his body, like a hum or a growl, or like a voice speaking from deep underground. Like the blood moving through her own heart: a word, a word, a word.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“Verbal abuse by its very nature undermines and discounts its victim’s perceptions.”
― Patricia Evans, The Verbally Abusive Relationship: How to Recognize It and How to Respond