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“That your whole life, it seems like no one ever really sees you, they just see what they want to see, what they need to see. They never see the holes inside you.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, You'd Be Home Now

“A smart person once told me that life is working against us all the time, inside and outside us, in a thousand different and silent ways that are invisible to us, and there is nothing we can do about it. You just have to do the best you can and go on, and hope for the best.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, You'd Be Home Now

“Someone I used to know said that’s the problem with adults. They just see kids as they want them to be, what they aren’t, and not as they are. I think about that all the time. Like, how much time and pain and suffering could be eliminated if you just accepted the kid in front of you and stopped trying to fix them. Maybe there is no “fixing.” Maybe there is just heartbreak and love and trying to help them stay alive, whatever it takes.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, You'd Be Home Now

“Giving money to individuals does little.” “It does a lot,” I said quietly, “for those people.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games