Sara Barnard

“Someone like you is brilliant and amazing.' I said. 'Why can't you see that in yourself?' The unfairness of it was starting to sink in. If she could only see herself like I did, there wouldn't be a problem. But she didn't, and she never would, and that was so many levels of wrong and unfair I almost couldn't comprehend it.”

“People in pain can be very self-destructive. And sometimes they pull in the people who are close to them, often without realizing.”