Abbie Kat

“The world and its people are too much for me. I am crushed between empathy and impotence. I don’t think I’m important. Not at all! In fact, I am embarrassingly insubstantial. Then why was I given this heart? It is so much more than I need.”
― Amity Gaige, Heartwood

“Do you understand that? Do you understand that I don’t care how big or small this world is, that you are the center of mine? Do you understand that, to someone, you are everything that matters on this entire planet?”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Atmosphere

“You’re kind and funny and smart, and so much more besides. He couldn’t take that away from you. He might’ve tried, but he couldn’t because you’re stronger than him and stronger than what he did to you.”
― Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

“As for the water family, this was formed much later in life, and was, to a large extent, of your own making. While it was true that nothing could take the place of a loving, happy blood family, in the absence of one, a good water family could wash away the hurt and pain collected inside like black soot. It was therefore possible for your friends to have a treasured place in your heart, and occupy a bigger space than all your kin combined. But those who had never experienced what it felt like to be spurned by their own relatives would not understand this truth in a million years. They would never know that there were times when water ran thicker than blood.”
― Elif Shafak, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World