Rachel

“As Simon put it, we are all a riot wrapped in skin.”
― Michele Lent Hirsch, Invisible: How Young Women with Serious Health Issues Navigate Work, Relationships, and the Pressure to Seem Just Fine

“It’s funny when you discover that everything you thought you knew is a lie. You think you’ve found freedom. Then you look down to see your hands are covered in blood.”
― Rachel Taff, Paper Cut

“she throws the phone and I go to get it for her and she laughs and says leave it

I look again at the picture

that can't be me it doesn't have a smell

I don't trust screens to tell me who I am”
― Henry Hoke, Open Throat

“I knew the truth then—that our father was not going to return. But even in the dark, I could see my sister’s expression, the wrinkles across her forehead. It hurt me so badly that I found myself lying through my teeth.

“Of course he’ll come back.”

She turned onto her shoulder, facing me, and chewed her lower lip. “How can you be so sure?”

“I just am.”

Reassured, Ji-hyun curled up next to me like a cooked shrimp, her feet hanging off the bed. I stroked her silky dark hair until she fell asleep, watching as her chest rose and fell. She looked so peaceful and at ease that I almost didn’t feel guilty. Long after my mother grew quiet, I remained awake, listening to Ji-hyun snore beside me. Only then did the awfulness of our situation swim back into my heart.”
― Monika Kim, The Eyes Are the Best Part