Britt

“It's like dessert stomach. Narcissistic mom heart. There's always room.”
― Roan Parrish, The Holiday Trap

“I'm demi," I say. Then stupidly, I clarify "-sexual. Not demiromantic or a demigirl or a demigod like Hercules." [...]
"I didn't think you were coming out to me as the mythological hero Hercules."
"Sorry, I don't always know what other people know about the asexual spectrum.”
― Alison Cochrun, Kiss Her Once for Me

“How do you know if you'd be better off without your family?" she asked. [...]
"I don't think it's so cut and dry. Like, I still talk to my parents. They love me. They just have lives that aren't the one I want." [...]
"Yeah, it's about choosing how you want the people in your life to make you feel. You can decide you only want people in your life who make you feel respected, cared for, listened to. Then you communicate that to them, and if they repeatedly make you feel disrespected, neglected, or ignored instead, you stop giving them your time or energy."
"Family's hard because it's rarely all bad. There's all those pretty memories of good times too. [...]"
"And it feels like if you cut those people off from your future, then you lose the folks that knew that part of your past. But it's not true. You keep those memories no matter what because they're yours. They don't belong to the people you shared them with.”
― Roan Parrish, The Holiday Trap

“You don't hurt people by choosing yourself over them. They hurt themselves with what they think about it. It's not your job to fold yourself up so small that your edges never bump into anyone else. What kind of life is that?”
― Roan Parrish, The Holiday Trap