Shay

“Call it grace, call it survival, call it strength—whatever allowed me to seize that moment of clarity and insist that what I was searching for was not in any cloistered room. It is something that my brother and I were given by our parents and the ways that they loved us. It is a fundamental belief in the worth of one's own life. It is the knowledge of true love, and the belief that we are capable givers and receivers of it.”
― Melissa Febos, Abandon Me: Memoirs

“Abandonment. What did that really mean? That I was left? That I had learned to leave my self. That I would retell the story until I found a different ending. Until I learned to stay.”
― Melissa Febos, Abandon Me: Memoirs

“Maddie quickly pulled down the blackout curtains over her bright and vulnerable soul.”
― Elizabeth Wein, Code Name Verity

“He did not crush gold cans of Presidente, like his father had. He did not collapse the drywall with our bodies. But I saw him weep in the yard.”
― Melissa Febos, Abandon Me: Memoirs