noisome

“When a toxic person can no longer control you, they will try to control how others see you. The misinformation will feel unfair, but stay above it, trusting that other people will eventually see the truth just like you did.”
― Jill Blakeway

“When they pass, we avert our eyes. If there are sounds coming from inside, we try not to hear them. Nobody's heart is perfect.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

“Although “The Myth of Sisyphus” poses mortal problems, it sums itself up for me as a lucid invitation to live and to create, in the very midst of the desert.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

“There." David points – a silver plastic sheath, the blade peeking out at one end. I grasp it. "Careful."
"I won't cut you." I hand it to him gently, the blade aimed toward myself.
"It's you I don't want to cut," he says.”
― A.J. Finn, The Woman in the Window