Cheryl

“It’s her as if the last couple of years of her life had never happened, if that man hadn’t done what he’d done to her. It’s her without all the self-medicating and self-loathing. It’s the her she used to be.”
― Lisa Jewell, Breaking the Dark

“I didn’t know it was possible to be so deeply angry with someone and simultaneously love them so much that you wanted to hug them until it hurt you both.”
― Sarah Pekkanen, Gone Tonight

“Men don’t know, she thinks, they don’t know how having a baby makes you protective of your skin, your body, your space. When you spend all day giving yourself to a baby in every way that it’s possible to give yourself to another human being, the last thing you want at the end of the day is a grown man wanting you to give him things too. Men don’t know how the touch of a hand against the back of your neck can feel like a request, not a gesture of love”
― Lisa Jewell, The Night She Disappeared