Lacey

“Do I understand that hurt my children feel? I think I do, though they might claim otherwise. But I think I know so well the pain we children clutch to our chests, how it lasts our whole lifetime, with longings so large you can't even weep. We hold it tight, we do, with each seizure of the beating heart: this is mine, this is mine, this is mine.”
― Elizabeth Strout, My Name Is Lucy Barton

“A person’s tragedy does not make up their entire life. A story carves deep grooves into our brains each time we tell it. But we aren’t one story. We can change our stories.”
― Amy Poehler, Yes Please

“You're forcing sex when I just want to be heard.”
― Lena Dunham

“I want so badly to take all her words and fit them like the pieces of a puzzle into the hole in my heart”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Forever, Interrupted