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“I hate the whole " what doesn't kill you makes you stronger" saying. It's bullshit. Sometimes what kills you is worse. Sometimes what kills you is preferable. Sometimes what doesn't kill you messes you up so bad it's always a fight to make it through what you left with.
What didn't kill me didn't make me stronger; what didn't made me a victim.
But I made me stronger. I made me into a survivor.”
― Tess Sharpe, The Girls I've Been

“There is no normal. There is just a bunch of people pretending there is. There's just different levels of pain. Different stages of safe. The biggest con of all is that there's a normal.”
― Tess Sharpe, The Girls I've Been

“She's staring at me with a bomb and her brilliance between us, and I'm twisting a paper towel fuse with the kind of trust I didn't think I could give another person.”
― Tess Sharpe, The Girls I've Been

“I’m pointing a gun at someone. Today is terrible. I don’t know if Wes is okay. Iris made a bomb and melted a guy’s face with a petticoat. She loves me.”
― Tess Sharpe, The Girls I've Been