Julia Sapphire

“I think of life as a book of stories. You move through the stories and the characters change. But once you have a name on your skin you are stuck with one story, even if it's a bad one.”
― Alice Hoffman, Faithful

“See, anxiety doesn’t just stop. You can have nice moments, minutes where it shrinks, but it doesn’t leave. It lurks in the background like a shadow, like that important assignment you have to do but keep putting off or the dull ache that follows a three-day migraine. The best you can hope for is to contain it, make it as small as possible so it stops being intrusive. Am I coping? Yes, but it’s taking a monumental amount of effort to keep the dynamite inside my stomach from exploding. The”
― Louise Gornall, Under Rose-Tainted Skies

“She's beginning to wonder if perhaps she's haunting herself.”
― Alice Hoffman, Faithful

“Just because it could be worse doesn't mean you don't get to acknowledge how much it sucks, you know.”
― Leah Johnson, You Should See Me in a Crown