A Familiar Sight (Dr. Gretchen White, #1)

by Brianna Labuskes

“You think there’s one rigid moral code—usually squarely centered around your own belief system. If someone follows it, she’s ‘good.’ If she doesn’t, she’s ‘bad.’ As if that actually means anything at all, as if humans can be slotted into two permanent, unforgiving categories.”

“We need people in our lives who don’t expect us to be anything but what we are”

Assumptions made the world go round. They were easy and frivolous and dangerous and essential to operating in a society where the vast majority of people seemed to intrinsically grasp the complexities of being human.

No one was unequivocally moral, flawless, mistake-free. And yet empaths always seemed blinded to the faults of those they were closest to, while unable to offer understanding to those they didn’t know.

saying “everyone knew it” was a red flag. It usually meant that the person holding that theory had no concept of the fact that his reality was not universal.

Youth had a way of making secrets seem delectable rather than the rotting things age helped you see that they were.