“Everyone will know, once and for all, the Lily I've worked so hard to hide.” HiddenThe Words We Keep Author:Erin Stewart
“Well, the truth is, if I were okay, I wouldn't be asleep at four in the afternoon. I wouldn't have spent the last week in bed, trying to stay unconscious.” The Words We Keep Author:Erin Stewart
“Oh right. That's all I ever hear. 'Look our for Alice.' 'Don't anger Alice.' 'Help Alice.' Alice, Alice, Alice. Do you know what it's like to find your sister on the bathroom floor with a blade pressed to her skin? Do you know what that does to a person?” SisterSelf HarmThe Words We Keep Author:Erin Stewart
“Negativity is totally unnatural. It is a psychic pollutant, and there is a deep link between the poisoning and destruction of nature and the vast negativity that has accumulated in the collective human psyche. No other life-form on the planet knows negativity, only humans, just as no other life-form violates and poisons the Earth that sustains it. Have you ever seen an unhappy flower or a stressed oak tree? Have you some across a depressed dolphin, a frog that has a problem with self-esteem, a cat that cannot relax, or a bird that carries hatred and resentment? The only animals that may occasionally experience something akin to negativity or show signs of neurotic behavior are those that live in close contact with humans and so link into the humans mind and its insanity.” Spirituality Author:Eckhart Tolle
“You know it's not the worst thing in the world to have somebody know who you are.” IdentityThe Words We Keep Author:Erin Stewart
“It's just, sometimes I can't breathe here, you know?" I do. I do know. I almost say it, too. But someone has to hold this family together” The Words We Keep Author:Erin Stewart
“I believed that if I was good enough--did enough--I could keep us from cracking.” BrokenThe Words We Keep Author:Erin Stewart