Katie

“So, then I am caught. I am caught in a tremor and my sister is the only person who can stop the shaking.”
― Darren Groth, Are You Seeing Me?

“They wanted their girls to be safe. To do what they had to do to conform, to defer, to survive, to grow up. They wanted their girls never to grow up. Never to stop burning. They wanted their girls to say fuck it, to see through the lies, to know their own strength. They wanted their girls to believe the things could be different this time, and they wanted it to be true.

They wondered, sometimes, if they'd made a mistake. If it was dangerous, taming the wild, stealing away the words a girl might use to name her secret self. They wondered at the consequences of teaching a girl she was weak instead of warning her she was strong. They wondered, if knowing was power, what happened to power that refused to know itself; they wondered what happened that couldn't be satisfied, to pain that couldn't be felt, a rage that couldn't be spoken.”
― Robin Wasserman, Girls on Fire

“You" or "Your" never meant one of us. When we replied to a question, no one cared which of us had spoken; an answer from one was an answer for The Twins.”
― Abraham Verghese

“At times like this, Eryn didn't feel like they were just twins. They were teammates. They were partners. They were two halves of the same brain.”
― Margaret Peterson Haddix, Under Their Skin