Jen

“I feel closer to you in a way, to just talk to you, but Mom, I still feel so lost, because you’re still gone. I love you and I just wish you weren’t dead.”
― Lynn Painter, First and Forever

“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

“Though law school was a blast. It’s what comes after it that’s unpleasant.”
― Lily King, Heart the Lover

“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