Make Me Better Quotes

“She hated the hard seed inside of her that choked off her ability to perform bright wet excitement on demand.”
― Sarah Gailey, Make Me Better

“To love is to accept a future that contains grief. The grief may be ours, or it may belong to those we leave behind. To love a child or a partner or a dream or a community is to enter into a contract with the inevitable pain of loss.”
― Sarah Gailey, Make Me Better

“What happened to her while I was gone? She's so different now."
"Is she? Or were you just seeing her wrong, before?”
― Sarah Gailey, Make Me Better

“For as long as she could remember, Celia had felt there was a voice inside her screaming, help me, and that her duty to the world was to hold her hand hard over the small screaming mouth so no one would ever have to hear it. And rising terror, because reading that passage made her feel certain that she'd failed to smother the scream tightly enough.”
― Sarah Gailey, Make Me Better

“To love is to accept a future that contains grief. The grief may be ours, or it may belong to those we leave behind. To love a child or a partner or a dream or a community is to enter into a contract with the inevitable pain of loss. This is a book about what pain we will accept and inflict on others to avoid the contract. It is about the paths we take to try to evade the inevitable. This is for everyone who has ever tried to be saved.”
― Sarah Gailey, Make Me Better