" For some
crazy reason, he believed in her, and that was extraordinary. No one had ever
believed in her before. Not her mother, who used to call her worthless every time
she tried to help around the house and worse than worthless if she didn’t try to
help. Not her father, who had informed her on her sixth birthday that she
shouldn’t have been born, before he walked out the door never to come back.
Not her sisters, who stole her clothes whenever she didn’t hide them. Not her
older brother, who used to hit her but only in places it wouldn’t show. Not her
teacher, who’d called her a liar when she’d tried to say she felt spirits. Oh, how
she’d loved the day he had been proved wrong! She’d loved the moment when it
was her turn to walk out that door! "

― Sarah Beth Durst , The Reluctant Queen (The Queens of Renthia, #2)