Holly

“The blues are because you're getting fat or maybe it's been raining too long. You're sad, that's all. But the mean reds are horrible. You're afraid and you sweat like hell, but you don't know what you're afraid of. Except something bad is going to happen, only you don't know what it is.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories

“what if he was like his father, with that threatening kind of anger, the kind that was always simmering, the kind that could boil over at any time and hurt everyone in the way? The apologies afterward never healed the damage.”
― Sara Pennypacker, Pax

“Honoring all ways we survived our childhood abuse is healing. We were amazing and courageous.”
― Jeanne McElvaney, Spirit Unbroken: Abby's Story

“Maybe the older you grow and the less easy it is to put thought into action, maybe that’s why it gets all locked up in your head and becomes a burden.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories