Genie

“I’m leaving her,” I said. “It’s been so much worse than I told you.” “How?” she asked. After I revealed everything, she wanted to know why I hadn’t confided in her. “I don’t know,” I said. I was weeping. “What if I’d told you and then didn’t leave her?” She was quiet for a moment. “Did you think that I would hold that against you?” I wept harder and covered my eyes with my hand. “Listen to me,” she said, her voice as firm as a hand under my chin. “You could never lose me. I will love you every day of your life.”
― Melissa Febos, Girlhood

“Don't think you haven't lived long enough to have a story to tell.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“Stories are important, the monster said. They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls