14 Quotes by Jessica Warman

My father is an apparition, and my mother is semiconscious.

Sometimes kindness doesn’t beget anything but misery. My mother didn’t have to learn that until she was in her thirties; I’ve known it nearly all my life. I’m not sure which of us is better off.

I remember my brother as such a gentle and loving child, the best big brother a girl could hope for, but I remember when I started to sense our family's world tilting on its axis, the kaleidoscope turning, when things started to go wrong. From then on, it was like we were still ourselves, but our lives played out as though reflected back to us from a funhouse mirror.

I realise now that I wanted to disappear. To get so lost that nobody ever found me. To go so far away that I'd never be able to make my way home again. But I have no idea why.

I'm not mean, I'm honest. Nobody is ever straightforward. But sometimes people need to hear the truth.

Cops, I've learned, are like vampires; they can't come in unless you invite them.

Ad astra per aspera- From the mud to the stars

I realise now that I wanted to disappear. To get so lost that nobody ever found me. To go so far away that I’d never be able to make my way home again. But I have no idea why.

I’m not mean, I’m honest. Nobody is ever straightforward. But sometimes people need to hear the truth.