Cassidy Jorris

“Need for others to accept you, to validate you, to tell you that you’re good and worthwhile and strong. And if you can do that for yourself—if you can live up to your own expectations and desires, then the need for other people to do so disappears.”
― Heidi Priebe, This Is Me Letting You Go

“It’s our houses,” he said. “And our family.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“I quickly decided there couldn’t be a God because no God who was supposed to love me and had the power to intervene in my life would do nothing to save me. I didn’t have to be scared of going to hell because of my unbelief. I was already there. I lived in it every day. I want something to hold on to, but there’s nothing there anymore. I feel like I’m flying or falling, never steady or planted on anything solid. I’m unstuck from the world around me. Now I just float in empty, vast darkness.”
― Lucinda Berry, Appetite for Innocence

“Do you think men ever feel bad for the stuff they like? Do they get called sluts or depraved or nasty? No. I think we’re all tired of being shamed and shoved into these quiet, perfect little innocent versions of ourselves while men can be as deviant as they want.”
― Sara Cate, Praise