There are moments, when you’re getting to know someone, when you realize something deep and buried in you is deep and buried in them, too. It feels like meeting a stranger you’ve known your whole life.

That's how you know someone loves you. When they want you to be happy even in the part of your life they'll never see.

—Leah Raeder in Unteachable

Anger is like that. Runs on its own fumes, devours itself voraciously, explosively, until one day there is no fire left. Only pure, cold, unbreakable hardness.

—Leah Raeder in Black Iris

People know their feelings much sooner than they consciously accept them.

—Leah Raeder in Unteachable

Strength is not in the body, it's in the mind. It doesn't lie in flexing your muscles and crushing those who oppose you. It lies in being the last one standing.

—Leah Raeder in Black Iris

We don't always get closure. Sometimes we have to make our own.

—Leah Raeder in Cam Girl

Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.

—Mark Twain

It all comes down to this: when you recognise your loneliness in another person, when you see desperation so familiar to yours written across someone else, you can't just let them leave.

—Chloe Rattray in Sacré Noir

Familiar acts are beautiful through love.

—Percy Bysshe Shelley

The more I traveled, the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

—Shirley MacLaine

Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.

—A. A. Milne