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1 " For most of my life there was a part of me that believed I didn't belong here -- in Blackdamp, in Granny's house. in this world. And that part of me ached at the sight of my door, at the thought of home. I wanted so badly to feel like I belonged, and it seemed so much easier to believe that my belonging waited on the other side of my door in some place I'd never seen than to believe that it was here, somewhere around me, waiting for me to find it. To make it so. "
― Ashley Blooms , Where I Can't Follow
2 " I wasn't sure I would recognize Joy if I saw it in an empty room. We were strangers at best, though most days it felt like we were mortal enemies. I could rely on Doubt and Worry and even Grief. I inhaled Stress and exhaled Obligation. Joy was something different, though. Something strange and feral and bright, and Carver wore it so well. "
3 " I can't keep going on like this," Julie said, "I've tried everything I can think of. I tried doing it the Reverend's way my whole life. The doctors' ways. I tried it without therapy, without meds. I joined a bunch of online groups. All these people preaching love and light and how you can just manifest money and happiness, but you can't manifest your way out of this. It's bullshit. And I'm just so tired. "
4 " A weight grew in the air between Misty’s mother and her sisters, a weight that Misty couldn’t quite understand. So much of growing up was that way. A feeling in a room that she’d just walked into. A feeling hanging between two people that she loved. A sense of something gone slightly wrong, but when she asked, no one would tell her the truth. And that was where childhood lay, in the shadow of knowing that something was wrong but not knowing what it was or why it was or how to fix it, so she was left standing in front of her mother, her mother tired and bleeding, her mother with a ragged hole chewed through her chest, her mother saying, “It’s fine. Everything is fine. "
― Ashley Blooms , Every Bone a Prayer
