Emy

“This wasn't supposed to be like this. It was supposed to be beautiful. What the fuck?”
― Matthew Quick, Love May Fail

“It wasn't until I admitted to my own place in the (abuse and trauma ) cycle that people gave me the respect I always knew I deserved. And now that I have it, I can't stop wondering why it is that for a woman's work to be taken seriously, she has to bleed first? and why I was so quick to open a vein?”
― Jessica Knoll, The Favorite Sister

“I don’t believe that blood makes a family; kin is the circle you create, hands held tight.”
― Tayari Jones, An American Marriage

“It's not my fault that the gray of everyone else's stories makes the color stand out.”
― Kathy Hepinstall, The Book of Polly