Jen

“How entirely undemanding of yourself it was to believe that everything happened to you. And everything was about you. And that your feelings were the only ones that mattered. Worse yet, to afford yourself the role of the victim always—regardless of how grotesquely it required you to twist reality—so that you never had to look in the mirror and admit you were the perpetrator.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Atmosphere

“And even when your plans are cast in stone, and every piece of data points to one bleak conclusion, reckless hope is the last ember to fade into darkness.”
― Victoria Lavine, Any Trope but You

“In the past, I’d coped with the meanness by just shutting down—like a little pill bug curling up into a ball.”
― Katherine Center, The Love Haters