15 Quotes by Elizabeth Haynes

Nobody can see pain. They have no frame of reference for pain that's happening to someone else. They can only see inactivity - which they interpret as laziness.

This isn't normal. This isn't how normal people think. Fuck off, world- what the hell is normal anyway?

You think you know now, don’t you? But you have no idea what it was like.

Then for some reason I’ve not done it properly one day, and that’s no good at all, because if you’re going to do something that’s for your own benefit, you’ve got to do it properly or there’s no point.

I lay back down, fitting myself into the curve of his body, pulling his arms around me, protecting me, keeping me sage.

He would let himself in whenever he felt like it, come and go as he pleased. I remembered when this was such a big deal for me, not so long ago. I’d wanted my own space, my front door that I could lock behind me and know for sure that nobody was going to be inside there without me. I remembered telling him that I wanted that space back. I remembered asking him for the key, and him walking away from me. I remembered him simply walking away and leaving, without so much as an argument.

As my English teacher used to tell me, if you can’t think of the right thing to say, say nothing at all.

If people stop looking at you, do you cease to exist? Does it mean you’re not a person any more? Does it mean you’re already dead?

Nobody can see pain. They have no frame of reference for pain that’s happening to someone else. They can only see inactivity – which they interpret as laziness.