Karissa

“Her well-rehearsed smile had got them through the last few weeks. Now it had to get her through the rest of their lives together.”
― John Marrs, The Marriage Act

“Jessica breathes in hard, holding back the urge to really show him patronizing, acutely aware of Gavin’s slumped shoulders, his mop, his bucket, his scruffy tracksuit, his tiny, punctured ego deflating on the sidewalk behind her as she walks away from him.”
― Lisa Jewell, Breaking the Dark

“Your mother died to save you. If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love. He didn’t realize that love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“She lives on the edges of everything, at the sharp pointy corner of existence between normality and extraordinariness where she is neither one thing nor, truly, the other. She can do extraordinary things, but she doesn’t like doing them. But she can’t be normal either, she’s too broken, too other.”
― Lisa Jewell, Breaking the Dark