Dot Hutchison

“My secrets are old friends; I would feel like a poor friend if I abandoned them now.”

“Not making a choice is a choice. Neutrality is a concept, not a fact. No one actually gets to live their lives that way.”

“Because a garden must have its butterflies.”

“Some people stay broken. Some pick up the pieces and put them back together with all the sharp edges showing.”

Body language was better than a flashing light for warnings.

The trouble with sociopaths, really, is that you never know where they draw their boundaries.

“I think a trauma doesn’t stop just because you’ve been rescued.”

I don’t know how to do any of this. I was always broken, and I was always okay with that. I was what I was. Now people are clamoring to see how I’ll fix myself, and I don’t want to fix myself. I shouldn’t have to. If I want to stay broken, isn’t that my choice?