Frances

“Many times in my life, I’ve seen someone decide, ‘I’m going to do this. This is going to happen for me.’ And good or bad, it always does.”
― Scarlett Savage, She Effin' Hates Me: A Love Story

“It confirmed what she’d believed all along, that she didn’t belong to those people, and never had. Instead of connecting Elin with her past, Rudi had marveled at the way she’d pulled herself out of it like a diamond from the rough.”
― Deborah Reed, Things We Set on Fire

“The only thing her mother knew how to do was take. Take interest, take advantage, then take the nearest exit. Too bad she never learned to take responsibility.”
― Victorine E. Lieske, Accidentally Married

“You are not your past. You are bigger than your past and you are better than your past. Let it be part of who you’ve become, but don’t you dare let it define you.”
― Lexi Ryan, Playing with Fire