Gemma Bond

“It's strange, to not be the youngest kind of adult anymore”
― Lily King, Writers & Lovers

“It must be the worst kind of suffering – cognizance of one’s own collapse, the penance of watching as things slip away.”
― Avni Doshi, Girl in White Cotton

“I don’t understand it,” I continued. “These things, they just keep happening, and I know it has to mean something. It has to. I want my suffering to mean something. I want this pain to matter.”
― Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

“The ‘if onlys’ tore at me in the day and in the suffocation of the night. Dragging on my breath and haunting my dreams.”
― Anne Griffin, When All Is Said