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“All the hand-wringing about women tempting fate by going on adventures, how it was our responsibility to protect ourselves…wasn’t it simply a way to keep women’s lives small? To keep us cowering at home, controlled, contained?” (We Were Never Here Quotes)
Andrea Bartz
We Were Never Here
“Breathed louder, harder, both of our breaths rhythmic and sultry, until all that existed was the feeling, deep and tender and raw.”
Andrea Bartz
We Were Never Here
“Cognitive behavioral therapy is kind of the same thing: You examine your thoughts like a scientist so you can challenge the ones that don’t hold up. So let’s look at this fear, this belief or, or thought pattern you’ve noticed. Just because a feeling is real doesn’t mean it’s true.”
Andrea Bartz
We Were Never Here
“Cognitive behavioral therapy is kind of the same thing: You examine your thoughts like a scientist so you can challenge the ones that don’t hold up.”
Andrea Bartz
We Were Never Here
“I’d been so focused on running away, I’d almost missed what I was running to.”
Andrea Bartz
We Were Never Here
“Just because a feeling is real doesn’t mean it’s true.”
Andrea Bartz
We Were Never Here
“Power is a funny thing. You know how they say that the opposite of love isn’t hate, it’s indifference? Like, we’re looking at the scale all wrong.” She tapped her nail against the glass. “I think it’s the same thing with fear. The opposite of fear isn’t safety. It’s power.”
Andrea Bartz
We Were Never Here
“Take my parents—I skimmed past them like floaters in their vision, a refraction of light in the retina. It wasn’t until college that I began to see their disinterest for what it was: emotional neglect.”
Andrea Bartz
We Were Never Here
“Their bravado is just them manufacturing their own pain, trying to seem strong.”
Andrea Bartz
We Were Never Here
“We’re all disgusting, every single one of us. Making messes and then wandering away.”
Andrea Bartz
We Were Never Here
“Which was worse, being invisible or being seen?”
Andrea Bartz
We Were Never Here
“Who knows what else is unwittingly documented in people’s phones and hard drives and dusty photo albums, background noise that would swell with meaning to a different audience?”
Andrea Bartz
We Were Never Here
