“But Erin has empathy, lots of it, so much it hurts sometimes, so much that other people's pain turns into her own pain and makes her completely incapable of doing anything useful for anyone. That's why it's easier to avoid… — Amy Reed Copy Share Image
“What Erin wants to do with pain is fix it, make it go away, and sometimes that's not what other people want.” — Amy Reed Copy Share Image
“People don't just let you change identities, not unless there's something in it for them.” — Amy Reed Copy Share Image
“Silence does not mean yes. No can be thought and felt but never said. It can be screamed silently on the inside. It can… — Amy Reed Copy Share Image
“Even though I'm sleeping again, everything still feels a little rickety, like I'm here but not quite here, like I'm just a stand-in for… — Amy Reed Copy Share Image
“And maybe these words have become something more than emails; maybe they are a kind of journal. Writing to you is like writing to… — Amy Reed Copy Share Image
“You never heard me tell you that I want everything, not just the perfect pieces, not just the sparkling, charming snapshots of you. You… — Amy Reed Copy Share Image
“There is a picture of me in their heads, a picture of someone I don't know yet. She is not the chubby girl with the braces and bad perm. She is not the girl hiding in the bathroom at recess. She is someone new, a blank slate they have named beautiful. That is what I am now: beautiful, with this… — Amy Reed Copy Share
