Emily Pernini

“You really don’t think I know what you’re doing, April? You’re here to forget.” Her head snapped up, her gaze meeting mine, but she didn’t speak. “You want to forget everything that hurts. You don’t want to think about the fact that Mom can’t seem to function, or that Gus doesn’t have a dad…that we don’t have Dad.” Now it was my eyes that were blurring. “You’re sick of crying, and worrying, and the fucking pain! So you lose yourself in someone, and you give over to those feelings because for those few moments, there’s nothing in your head or your heart but the way he’s making you feel. Yeah, April, I get it.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Full Measures

“But I’m part of the world and I’m telling you what I am. You won’t listen. You don’t have to understand something to accept it. You don’t know how a rocket flies into space, but you accept that it does.”
― John Marrs, You Killed Me First