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“Trying to force Seneca’s approach: believe the worst and you will be prepared when it takes place; by believing the worst, he actually thought he was earning a happy surprise.”
― Jaclyn Moriarty, Gravity Is The Thing

“It must be a prerequisite for being a mother, something that growing another person inside you does, heart and heartlessness, as though simplistic empathy has been scooped out and replaced with something more fundamental, something more likely to guarantee survival.”
― Sophie Mackintosh, The Water Cure

“Popular self-help teaches you to ask for help, accept help, set boundaries, say no. So you ask for help and the person you ask politely refuses. Because he or she has learned to set boundaries and say no.”
― Jaclyn Moriarty, Gravity Is The Thing

“The forest looms. It is dark in here, dark where I belong, with the wolves and the snakes and the other loveless creatures.”
― Sophie Mackintosh, The Water Cure