Lydia

“Sometimes I believe personalities are shaped more by damage than kindness. Kindness doesn’t sink as deep into your skin as the damage does. The damage stains your soul so bad, you can’t scrub it off. It stays there forever, and I feel like people can see all my damage just by looking at me.”
― Colleen Hoover, Heart Bones

“I only had you for the blink of an eye,” he says.
She laughs. “You had me an entire lifetime. All of mine.”
“That wasn’t enough”
― Fredrik Backman, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer

“That was what the books did—they turned off your thinking for you, put their thoughts in your head so you wouldn't have your own.”
― Simone St. James, The Broken Girls

“There’s so much gray to every story—nothing is so black and white.”
― Lisa Ling