Dascha Jones

“It’s both creepy and out of my control, this ability I have to notice so much about other people when I’m positive no one notices anything at all about me.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“It’s not just that so many shitty things have happened to me, it’s that for the longest time I didn’t know how to make my life better. Finally, as if I were someone discovering a secret door in a secret garden, the future revealed itself to me. But now that I’m here, I still feel the weight of the past. Sometimes it’s like my legs have been bound with anchor chains, and I’ve been thrown off a ship into the cruel ocean, and all I can do is sink.”
― Jodi Picoult, Mad Honey

“You can admit that what happened to you made you stronger without celebrating the people who did those things to you.”
― Christopher Rice, Bone Music

“I used to think I couldn’t let you go; but I’m learning to feel that I don’t lose you; that you’ll be more to me than ever, and death can’t part us, though it seems to.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women