Helen

“Even having identified Lust as a ‘defect’, a negative and problematic trait, we don’t automatically discard it. ‘Lust is natural, I’m entitled to lust, if she had sex more I wouldn’t look at porn’, all these justifications are obstacles to change. In justifying our misery we recommit to it.”
― Russell Brand, Recovery: Freedom From Our Addictions

“She’s long ago given up wishing that she had a mother who felt things less keenly, who was able to contain her emotions, at least in front of the person who was suffering first-hand. Ever since she was a little girl, Viola had experienced everything twice: when it happened and then when she’d told her mother what happened. The second time was always worse because her mother’s reaction would always reignite Viola’s own pain and then she’d have the extra pain of her mother to contend with too.”
― Menna van Praag, The Patron Saint of Lost Souls: The bewitching novel of getting your heart's desire

“We’re all searching for a piece of home, or a piece of ourselves. We look for a taste of it in the food we order and the ingredients we buy. Then we separate.”
― Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

“The truth is, I would have wanted any mother of any sort, as long as she wanted me back. I would have loved her just for loving me in return.”
― Camille Griep, Letters to Zell