Hans M. Hirschi

“NOTHING, THAT'S WHAT he used to tell himself after the rape. It had been nothing. Yet, deep inside, he know, way back then, that it wasn't nothing, that he had been violated, that he had been taken forcibly, and that something inside him had broken that day.
It was as if all humans had this precious thing inside their bodies, almost like a vial of glass, thin glass, and when they were hurt the way Sasha had been hurt that day, that vial broke. The shards of glass cut into the surrounding tissue, the heart, making it bleed. It cut the lungs, making them strain to breath.”
― Hans M. Hirschi, Family Ties