Melanie

“I didn’t want to be saved from myself. Nobody does! All we want is permission to stand there naked and be our damned selves.” This sounds true to Phoebe. This sounds like exactly what she wants, what she has secretly always wanted. To read books when she wanted to read books. To be sad when she was sad. To be scared when she was scared. To be angry when she was angry. To be boring when she felt boring.”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People

“She could be listening to someone ostensibly nothing like her who would describe, with almost uncanny precision, her exact feelings and thoughts. That was the magic of the fellowship, when it worked: the realization that the parts of yourself that were the most hidden, most shameful, were what connected you most deeply to others. In AA, you were never an outsider, never alone.”
― Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters

“The brilliance of the law is that it’s not concerned with one person but with a system applicable to all. It protects the guilty so it can protect the innocent.”
― David Ellis, Look Closer

“I will never understand why men think that women work so hard to destroy them. In my experience it is usually the opposite.”
― Ariel Lawhon, The Frozen River