Paula Halcom

“My mom was my first mean girl.”
― Melanie Shankle, Here Be Dragons: Treading the Deep Waters of Motherhood, Mean Girls, and Generational Trauma

“Then, suddenly, they're incredibly proud, but they're proud of the accomplishment, not of the work. So you feel like you have to keep accomplishing instead of just creating. It affirms the idea that the value in what you do is how people react to it, and not just the making of it. I've written stuff I'm really proud of that hardly anyone read. I've written stuff of I'm proud of that no one liked. That doesn't mean it didn't deserve to be written.”
― Emily Henry, Great Big Beautiful Life

“She realizes that children are always too young and self-absorbed to really see their parents in the prime of their lives.”
― Blake Crouch, Recursion

“There is something incredibly healing about getting to be the thing in someone else's life that you wished you'd had in your own.”
― Melanie Shankle, Here Be Dragons: Treading the Deep Waters of Motherhood, Mean Girls, and Generational Trauma