Erin Condiff

“In avoiding all pain and seeking comfort at all cost, we may be left without intimacy or compassion; in rejecting change and risk we often cheat ourselves of the quest; in denying our suffering we may never know our strength or our greatness.”
― Rachel Naomi Remen, Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal

“You're helpless to the behaviour but the effort involved is just unbelievable.”
― Patrick Ness, The Rest of Us Just Live Here

“We held each other so close that we might indeed have been one body.”
― James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talk

“Soon my sobs dulled to a whimper. Soon my breathing came back. Soon I was able to get off the carpet. Soon I'd meet my friends for college and pretend it hadn't happened.”
― Holly Bourne, Am I Normal Yet?