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As long as you are alive, it is never too late to be found.

She grew up feeling safe and fiercely loved. And you and I didn't get that. But the people who did, they grew up to be different from us. More secure. Maybe they're not as shiny or successful as you and I feel we have to be. But it's not because they're not interesting. They just don't feel they have to do the tap dance, you know? They don't have to prove themselves all the time to be loved. Because they always were.

"She was fighting to think of them both, her mother and herself, as something other than broken and suicidal"

"Talking to his mother bewildered him. He wished he loved her a little more or hated her a little less, something to tip the scale. Instead, he lived in the fraught balance between the two, each increasing the intensity of the other: the more he longed for her, the more disappointed he felt by her; the more disappointed he felt, the more he longed"

"What men feared most was pity, and what women feared most was envy. For a guy envy can be empowering, but for a girl it just means you're going to get attacked or excluded"

„Her attention felt like a warmer current of water“