Lec

“How am I supposed to go back? How am I supposed to forget what it was like to be with you? To be loved by you?”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“New Yorkers, I figured, just pretended to be unfriendly.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle

“All I know is that it’ll never be safe for me to rely on someone else again, to need constant reassurance of who I am and who I might someday be. I can love him, but I can’t depend on him to be my backbone. I can’t be my own person if I constantly require someone else to hold me together.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“A popular man arouses the jealousy of the powerful.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune