Jaime

“As usual, pain does its work on the inside, invisibly. In doing her best to have as normal a life as possible, Carolyn cultivates an appearance that belies her true experience.1”
― Lynn R. Webster, The Painful Truth: What Chronic Pain Is Really Like and Why It Matters to Each of Us

“Some people are meant to disappear from your life, to remain a memory, a faded possibility. A curiosity. I ought to know. But when curiosity is so easily fulfilled, how do you avoid fulfilling it? A button is pressed and you’re friends again.”
― Catherine McKenzie, Hidden

“But that’s the funny thing about treasure—we assume everyone wants what we hold most dear.”
― Suzanne Rindell, The Other Typist

“I don’t feel sorry for myself. I’m not owed any of that. The opportunities were there, and I did not take them. I find it difficult to live with this sometimes.”
― Craig Lancaster, The Fallow Season of Hugo Hunter