Cheryl

“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

“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

“There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right book.”
― Frank Serafini