“Emotional neglect leaves no bruise. That is part of what makes it so difficult to name and so easy to dismiss.”

— Nikita Datar

“You learned not to need things. That is not self-sufficiency. That is a survival response that became a personality.”

— Nikita Datar

“When your emotions were ignored, you learned to make yourself invisible. Now you wonder why no one sees you.”

— Nikita Datar

“You were never too much. You were in an environment with too little capacity.”

— Nikita Datar