Jenna Berggren

“Parents can be our greatest allies, they can fiercely love us, but they can also be the cause of our trauma.”
― Anna Marie Tendler, Men Have Called Her Crazy: A Memoir

“We tell ourselves stories in order to live. —Joan Didion, The White Album”
― Genevieve Wheeler, Adelaide

“She cried when she was happy and when she was sad and when the world felt like it was all just too much and her face was on fire and the only way to cool it down was to cry, cry, cry, cry, cry. It often felt selfish and irrational. She knew she was so lucky, so blessed. That there was no reason to cry. It didn’t matter; she would cry anyway.”
― Genevieve Wheeler, Adelaide

“You could fall asleep spooning her and wake up with a screwdriver pressed to your throat.”
― Ruth Madievsky, All-Night Pharmacy