Tash

“Hurt can do weird things to a woman. That much I’ve learned,” Derek said, setting one box in the truck. “It makes them hard and brittle and really, really angry. Although it’s not so much angry, it’s more like they’re afraid to feel, to let you see them feel. So they snap at you and go for the juggler to get you mad so you’ll start focusing on you rather than on helping them.”
― Staci Stallings, A Love Like This