Penny

“The me I’m working toward—the me who isn’t bitter, who doesn’t begrudge others’ happiness, who is joyful—I doubt she’d stay away from her brother this long, no matter what he’d done or what a little ass he was.”
― Charlene Carr, Skinny Me

“Bad girls like me weren’t supposed to care about what happened to them. Bad girls like me were supposed to end up angry and broken and hurt. It was hard to admit that I was tired of being angry and broken and hurt. That maybe I wasn’t cut out to be a bad girl.”
― Lisa Burstein, Pretty Amy

“I know I’d always felt like I had to make the choices I made to survive, but the thing was—I made them. I could say the world forced me into it, but that would be a lie. It was me. It was all me.”
― Lisa Burstein, Pretty Amy

“For so much of my life I felt hated and judged when, ironically, it was probably because I spent so much of my time hating and judging others.”
― Charlene Carr, Skinny Me