Abby

“You don’t have to meet everyone’s individual trauma yardsticks. You feel how you feel. It affects you how it affects you. If it takes a toll on you then it takes a fucking toll on you. No one else’s opinion can change that, as much as they might try.”
― Caitlin Devlin, The Real Deal

“You’re not asking too much,” he said. “You were just asking the wrong person. Ask me instead.”
― Abby Jimenez, Just for the Summer

“There are two kinds of peace. One is the sun-dappled walls of a bookshop, the gentle emptiness of your own bedroom – a kind of undisturbed, predictable peace in which you are only ever exactly what you are. The other is the peace that comes when no one sees you as anything more than another piece of a crowded picture. As soon as they turn away from you, you don’t exist. This is the peace I find in central London, on the days when no one recognises me. That feeling of disappearing into the noise.”
― Caitlin Devlin, The Real Deal

“Unhealed trauma is a crack. And all the little hard things that trickle into it that would have rolled off someone else, settle. Then when life gets cold, that crack gets bigger, longer, deeper. It makes new breaks. You don’t know how broken she was or what she was trying to do to fill those cracks. Being broken is not an excuse for bad behavior, you still have to make good choices and do the right thing. But it can be the reason. And sometimes understanding the reason can be what helps you heal.”
― Abby Jimenez, Just for the Summer