Gemma Barrett

“I was an orphan with two living mothers.”
― Donatella Di Pietrantonio, L'Arminuta

“What’s bred in the bone will come out in the flesh.”
― Meg Howrey, They're Going to Love You

“So when my mother asks me to forgive her, I say, "Of course I do."I don't tell her again that she couldn't have stopped it, that it wasn't her fault and that she didn't deserve it. I swallow those words instead. Maybe somewhere deep in my belly, they'll take root and grow.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Slit me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and dark, drop on the floor so you could stomp on it.”
― Gillian Flynn, Dark Places