Rachel

“The dangerous ghetto environment I grew up in did not scare me, but bridges, elevators, even cars did. A thunderstorm would have me running into the basement, and any insect would have me running out of the house. I walked the dark streets alone at night but could not sleep without the reassuring sound of a little black-and-white TV—to the chagrin of my sister, with whom I shared a bedroom.”
― Laura Bates, Shakespeare Saved My Life: Ten Years in Solitary with the Bard

“Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
― Matthew Quick, Love May Fail

“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
― Matthew Quick, Love May Fail