Sarah Pottenger

“People say depression lies. Anxiety is just stupid. It’s unable to tell the difference between things that are actually scary (being buried alive, for example) and things that are not scary at all (being in bed under the covers). It hits all the same buttons. Stop. Go. Up. Down. It’s all the same to anxiety.”
― Maureen Johnson, Truly Devious

“I wasn’t showing what I really felt. Real grief is ugly and uncomfortable. People look away from grief the same way they look away from severed limbs or gaping wounds. What they want is pain like death on a stage: beautiful, bloodless, presented for their entertainment”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, Tell the Wind and Fire

“The beautiful thing about books was that anyone could open them.”
― Victoria Schwab, This Savage Song

“The whole thing smelled like a thrift shop that had been baked in a low oven and felt like a too-tight and too-long hug by a rejected Muppet.”
― Maureen Johnson, Truly, Devious