Sarah

“Hearts grow strings because of what you know that's the same, what happened to you that's the same. And when what you want is the same.”
― Tayari Jones, Kin

“To come with me tonight to the meeting is to live. To keep trying to do it by yourself is to die. What's it gonna be?”
― Sadeqa Johnson, Keeper of Lost Children

“I turned my fork over on my plate wondering why it was always my responsibility to worry over what grown men might be thinking. I had been hearing it all my life. Even back to when I lived with Nene, as a flat-chested eight-year-old, I was constantly reminded to be modest. Not to leave the bathroom without my robe on when an uncle or cousin or friend of the family was at the house, smoking cigarettes and drinking beer.”
― Sadeqa Johnson, The House of Eve

“How terrifying that must be for a child, how traumatizing—how your sense of self-worth would implode, and the pain would be too great, too huge to feel, so you'd swallow it, repress it, bury it. Over time you would lose contact with the origins of your trauma, dissociate the roots of its cause, and forget. But one day, all the hurt and anger would burst forth, like fire from a dragon's belly...”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient