“She remembered days of exhaustion when all she’d wanted was a kind word, a teardrop’s worth of empathy.
Choice. She had a choice.
'You don’t have to be like her,' Yumi thought. 'You really don’t.'
Such a novel idea, and so much harder to do than she would ever have assumed. Still, Yumi forced out the words. The ones akin to those she always wished she could have heard.
“It’s all right,” she whispered. “I know you’re trying. That’s what matters.”
― Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
Choice. She had a choice.
'You don’t have to be like her,' Yumi thought. 'You really don’t.'
Such a novel idea, and so much harder to do than she would ever have assumed. Still, Yumi forced out the words. The ones akin to those she always wished she could have heard.
“It’s all right,” she whispered. “I know you’re trying. That’s what matters.”
― Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
“It’s a common mistake to assume that someone is weak because they are accommodating. If you think this, you might be the type who has no idea how much effort—how much strength—it takes to put up with your nonsense.”
― Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
― Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
“Y tu eres un verdadero brazalete de la suerte como persona.”
― Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
― Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
“Trauma doesn’t decrease with company, but it does grow easier to work through when you know someone else understands.”
― Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
― Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
“Art - and all stories are art, even the ones about real people - is about what it does to you.”
― Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
― Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
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