Zara

“Common boundary issues in families also include adults inappropriately airing or discussing adult matters with children or adolescents. In my view, adults/parents should contain "adult-stuff" while allowing children to enjoy as safe and carefree a childhood as possible. This containment is a healthy parent-child boundary. It is common that as children we were exposed to adult difficulties that were too confusing for us to really make sense of. Perhaps as children we were forced to keep quiet, to be good, to comply, to not resist or upset others - we had little choice.”
― Sarah Davies, How to Leave a Narcissist ... For Good: Moving On From Abusive and Toxic Relationships

“It was then I started to fully understand the greater importance of blink, that it was bigger than the three of us. The band had been around for more than twenty years. People had grown up with us. Lost their virginity to our music. Hung our posters on their bedroom walls. They had kids of their own and introduced our music to them. We were transcending into something more than a band. blink was an idea. And we couldn't let that idea die.”
― Mark Hoppus

“There were cold days, too; suddenly bitter days that looked the same through the window as the warm ones – the sky blue; the leaves acid green. It was only when you left the house bare-armed, the chill wind penetrating your cotton layers, that you discovered they were only pretending to be nice. Aggressive mimicry; you find it everywhere in nature. Spiders that look like the ants on which they feed, death’s-head hawkmoths that emit the smell of bees so they can sneak into the hive unnoticed and steal their honey, weeds that spring up next to almost identical cultured plants, strangling them and draining the goodness from the earth . . . The world is full of predators or parasites gaining advantage by their resemblance to a softer third party.”
― Sabine Durrant, Finders, Keepers

“The expectation that, if not virtue, then at least good practice would necessarily be rewarded was naive, but that didn't alter the ferocity of the feeling - that it wasn't fair”.
Lionel Shriver, "The Motion of the Body Through Space”
― Lionel Shriver