Suzi

“I love me, and I won’t let anything happen to her. All because once upon a time, my worst nightmare came true.”
― Rebecca Humphries, Why Did You Stay?: A memoir about self-worth

“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“Don't do it, Eleanor told the little girl; insist on your cup
of stars; once they have trapped you into being like everyone
else you will never see your cup of stars again”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

“There's something about love that resembles faith. It's kind of a blind trust, isn't it? The sweetest euphoria. The magic of connecting with a being beyond our limited, familiar selves. But if we get carried away by love- or by faith- it turns into a dogma, a fixation. The sweetness becomes sour. We suffer in the hands of gods that we ourselves created.”
― Elif Shafak, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World