April

“When you endure horror day after day, month after month, it becomes normalized. I built high stone walls around my heart—walls that no one could break through or climb over for more than twenty years. My MO was to not think about it, not talk about it. Don’t feed the beast. Don’t give it any oxygen. It’ll go away. For a long time, I made that work, but every now and then, some random thing would trigger a flood of memory and anxiety and crush my soul all over again.”
― Paris Hilton, Paris: A Memoir for Young Women in the Age of Influencers

“Dumb is just not knowing. 'Ditzy' is having the courage to ask!”
― Jessica Simpson

“Whatever you are going through, the sun will come out.”
― Jessica Simpson, Open Book

“There are so many firsts to raising kids, and parents are told to catch them all. But they don’t warn you about the lasts. The last baby onesie. The last time you tie their shoes. The last time they think you have every answer in the world.”
― Jessica Simpson, Open Book