Sara Kadish

“People are not born hating themselves. It's something that comes with time, with careful conditioning and spiteful words, with fingernails dug into your arm until you bleed. It's a special sort of skill, to hurt someone so badly that they don't love themselves anymore.”
― C.M. Stunich

“Sticks and stones may very well break bones, but the rest was all fucking wrong. Words could cripple a person for a lifetime.”
― Lindsey Hart, Faking It with Mr Nightshadow

“How could we explain that standing on a stage and speaking someone else’s words as if they are your own is less an act of bravery than a desperate lunge at mutual understanding? An attempt to forge that tenuous link between speaker and listener and communicate something, anything, of substance.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“Isn't it funny how that works? One day, you just pick a human you've met, and you're like, 'I like this one,' and then you do stuff with them. They become important to you just because you chose to let them be.”
― K.D. Robichaux