Justine

“I’ve read so many stories online about how tragedy brings people together, how hard times encourage bravery and sacrifice, how a crisis can turn ordinary folks into heroes. But what about the opposite, when something horrible happens and it strips us bare, exposing weaknesses we didn’t even know we had. What about when tragedy makes people worse?”
― Paula Stokes, This Is How It Happened

“People are always clinging to what they want to hear, discarding the evidence that doesn’t fit with their beliefs, giving greater weight to evidence that does.”
― Paula Stokes, The Key to Everything

“Guilt is basically one of my superpowers. It’s been programmed into me from the moment I was old enough to know what it was.”
― Paula Stokes, Hidden Pieces