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“Another thing,” Tommy said very quietly. “Sophie’s mother had to leave her dad, to get sober. She says as long as you’re living with an addict, you’re addicted.” I punched my fist into my hand a couple of times and walked out of there before I did worse. Why didn’t he just say it? Didn’t matter. I wasn’t leaving her.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

“The choice to experience any one scenario in a dream is fulfilled not by desire but by the firm intention to achieve a certain goal. You”
― Vadim Zeland, Master of reality

“As well as a brief sense of freedom from all rules. So perhaps we should all bend the rules sometimes.”
― Freida McFadden, Never Lie

“had a room to myself as a kid, but my mother was always quick to point out that it wasn’t my room, it was her room and I was merely permitted to occupy it. Her point, of course, was that my parents had earned everything and I was merely borrowing the space, and while this is technically true I cannot help but marvel at the singular damage of this dark idea: That my existence as a child was a kind of debt and nothing, no matter how small, was mine. That no space was truly private; anything of mine could be forfeited at someone else’s whim.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House