Sea

“Who tells you to be quiet all the time?” Laurie’s words are a low, thickened spill of warm honey. “Pain is meant to take up space or else we wouldn’t know how to scream. Fuck making your agony silent to avoid disturbing others. Maybe they should be disturbed.”
― C.G. Drews, Hazelthorn

“I believe we all have the choice to be better than the hands that shaped us.”
― Nora Sakavic, The Sunshine Court

“There's a moment. Where I'm staring at the door. And I think to myself "This is my rock bottom."
But I might as well find out what the full depth of my rock bottom looks like. Maybe there's something interesting down here, like my dignity.”
― Sara Raasch, Go Luck Yourself

“It wasn’t that she didn’t like people. It was only that she liked books more.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop