Jess

“Can't look to someone else to be my everything or rely on them to make me feel whole”
― Lily Collins, Unfiltered: No Shame, No Regrets, Just Me

“My hard work was expected rather than exceptional. It’s not that my dad ever told me or even alluded to the fact that I was a failure, but my actions no longer got his unprompted attention or praise, so I constantly felt that I wasn’t doing enough. That I wasn’t enough.”
― Lily Collins, Unfiltered: No Shame, No Regrets, Just Me

“I know what I did to you was so wrong, but at the time it also felt so necessary to my survival.”
― Gayle Forman, Where She Went

“Mia faces me now. The wind is whipping her hair this way and that so she looks like some kind of mystical sorceress, beautiful, powerful, and scary at the same time. She shakes her head and starts to turn away.

Oh, no! We’ve come this far over the bridge. She can blow the damn thing up if she wants to. But not without telling me everything. I grab her, turn her to face me. “Why not? Tell me. You owe me this!”

She looks at me, square in the eye. Taking aim. And then she pulls the trigger. “Because I hated you.”
― Gayle Forman, Where She Went