I was not a lovable child, and I'd grown into a deeply unlovable adult. Draw a picture of my soul, and it'd be a scribble with fangs.

I just think some women aren't made to be mothers. And some women aren't made to be daughters.

Worries find you easily enough without inviting them.

I assumed everything bad in the world could happen, because everything bad in the world already did happen.

I was raised feral, and I mostly stayed that way.

Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them.

It was surprising that you could spend hours in the middle of the night pretending things were OK, and know in thirty seconds of daylight that that simply wasn't so.