Eileen Patterson

“Reggie had always been a quiet kid, even with her own family, and part of the reason for this was that she never knew the right thing to say. Words didn’t come easily to her, they were stumbling blocks rather than lines of connection. And only later, after the fact, when she was replaying conversations in her head late at night, did the right words come—a cruel joke, too little, too late.”
― Jennifer McMahon, The One I Left Behind

“people who’d been through extreme instances of abuse sometimes lost the ability to detect the smaller abuses, the signs that someone wasn’t truly loving or a good match. It’s why it could be so hard for them to build lives better than what they’d been through. So hard for them to move on.”
― Christopher Rice, Bone Music

“Lots of people professed to be open-minded and not judge other people, but it was something people said because it sounded good rather than the truth.”
― Lucinda Berry, Missing Parts

“sometimes there was no moving on and you just had to move through.”
― Lucinda Berry, Missing Parts