Vicky

“And she felt it then, like a needle in her heart, the love her mother always talked about. ‘You won’t understand how much I love you until you’re a mother yourself.”
― Lisa Jewell, Then She Was Gone

“I am brave, and I am brilliant, and I am strong..”
― Lisa Jewell, Then She Was Gone

“It's clearly not a topic he wants to give any oxygen to!”
― Lisa Jewell, The Night She Disappeared

“The leopard in the zoo wanders to the edge of his pen and, through the bars or across an unjumpable moat, he stares at you with contempt for your inferiority, for needing that barrier between you, There is a shared understanding in that moment, non verbal but no less real: the leopard is predator and you are prey, and it is only the barrier that permits us humans to feel superior and secure.”
― William Landay, Defending Jacob