Ashley

“and a man at the back who Jules considered surprisingly good looking for somone who believed in god.”
― Bella Bathurst, Special

“I wanted to tell her that she was ridiculously unfair, and it had taken me a good thirty of my thirty-two years on this earth to get past the body image issues that she had instilled in me. I wanted to tell her that I liked how I looked, so whatever she thought was irrelevant. I wanted to tell her that, by her standards, nothing would look good on both me and Amy. And I most definitely wanted to tell her to go to hell. But you can’t do that with your mom, can you? Somehow, all of those things that you want to say, that maybe you should say, just don’t have the courage to come out of your mouth. Because it’s different when it’s your mom. Whatever she says cuts deeper, scars worse, and makes you feel like maybe it’s actually true, even when you know it’s not.”
― Sara Goodman Confino, For the Love of Friends

“Crying was a good example of how things had changed in the last few days. She used to beleive that crying provoked consolation from others. Now she knew that crying provoked nothing except the sound of its own sadness.”
― Bella Bathurst, Special

“But there's another story, A real short one, probably written on my grave: " couldn't stay sober. Never liked himself.”
― Jonathan Ames, My Less Than Secret Life: A Diary, Fiction, Essays