Amber

“Usually, when there is a power struggle in a couple, and old childhood wounds are reopening, people tend to blame their partner for all the problems because blame is easier. If we blame others, we never have to look inward and take responsibility for our own stuff, which is exhausting and uncomfortable”
― Lena Derhally, My Daddy Is a Hero: How Chris Watts Went from Family Man to Family Killer

“He was doing Clarice a favor: he was sure she didn’t want to remember the girl who’d forced herself on her with those lesbian kisses.”
― Raphael Montes, Perfect Days

“Pre-date jitters turn my insides into a battleground. I feel like I might simultaneously throw up and pass out.”
― Isabel Sterling, These Witches Don't Burn

“I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath