Giiinia

“She told me never to envy anyone from Oxbridge because all of them were either egotistical bullies or trembling and frightened of themselves.”
― Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident

“It's not that we weren't capable of warmth as a family. But we were regularly seduced by the concept of being wronged.”
― Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident

“Don’t you understand how condescending it is,” he said, “for someone you love not to tell you about the biggest thing happening in their life, because they don’t want to bother you? Because they think you can’t handle it?” “I just wanted to leave you out of it. Because I do love you. You know that. I’m always saying it.” “That’s not an act of love, Rache. It’s an act of…I don’t know, ambivalence. It’s an act of distance.”
― Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident

“Some folks struggled disproportionately, carrying things that others couldn't even lift.”
― Diane Marie Brown, Black Candle Women