Melody

“I am supposed to be touched. I can’t wait to find the person who will come into the kitchen just to smell my neck and get behind me and hug me and breathe me in and make me turn around and make me kiss his face and put my hands in his hair even with my soapy dishwater drips. I am a lovely woman. Who will come into my kitchen and be hungry for me?”
― Jenny Slate, Little Weirds

“But she’s not hiding in a room somewhere. She’s living her life, grateful to have survived.”
― K.A. Tucker, Chasing River

“I want to be cleansed—I want to burn away all of the bad memories and everything bad inside of me.”
― Ava Dellaira, Love Letters to the Dead

“The person who truly lives has precious few moments of safety, learns to thrive in any kind of storm. It’s the truth you can stare down stone-cold that makes you what you are. Weak or strong. Live or die. Prove yourself. How much truth can you take,”
― Karen Marie Moning, Dreamfever