Jenny

“I needed alcohol to drink away the things that plagued me. Not just my doubts about sex. My self-consciousness, my loneliness, my insecurities, my fears. I drank away all the parts that made me human, in other words, and I knew this was wrong.”
― Sarah Hepola, Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget

“I wish this wasn't what it means to be female -- it is not a matter of if something bad will happen, but when.”
― Emiko Jean, The Return of Ellie Black

“I am here. Solid, steadily moving through the world. I can be alone. I can be a force. I don't need half-love, half-life, half is not enough. I can be whole with nothing. I came from nothing. I came from nowhere. I can be anywhere now, without. Here I am without. But here I am. Flying”
― Emma Glass, Rest and Be Thankful

“In a house where food was love but eating was shameful, family meals were both a relief and a curse, a volatile push-and-pull of comfort and fear.”
― Luke Dumas, Nothing Tastes as Good