Esther

“I was focused before - obsessed, really - with the appearance of perfection. But what did that ever bring me but pain? Pain and not seeing people for who they really are. If I ever get out of here, I'll look at people differently. I'll look for their true selves beneath the mask of their bodies. I'll look at soul.”
― Cheryl Rainfield, Stained

“I hate my body Hate what it remembers. Hate what it let him do.”
― Cheryl Rainfield, Stained

“If you say something over and over and over, maybe they’ll give in to shut you up.”
― Cynthia Lord, Rules

“Sometimes I wish someone would invent a pill so David’d wake up one morning without autism, like someone waking from a long coma, and he’d say, “Jeez, Catherine, where have I been?”
― Cynthia Lord, Rules