I Stop Somewhere Quotes

“I didn't deserve this. Even the most confused and lost girl, even the most screwed up of us all, doesn't deserve this. Death isn't the consequence for making a mistake; it's the punishment we force on girls because they couldn't be good. Only girls have to die for wanting.”
― T.E. Carter, I Stop Somewhere

“The court of public opinion moves much faster than the law.”
― T.E. Carter, I Stop Somewhere

“Beth will come back and coach Gretchen and Kailey on how to say the right things. I don't know if anyone is coaching the boys, but it seems unfair. Why do Gretchen and Kailey have to learn how to be the right kind of victims?”
― T.E. Carter, I Stop Somewhere

“Misconduct. I wish they'd call it for what it is. Misconduct sounds like something you do to earn yourself a time-out as a toddler.”
― T.E. Carter, I Stop Somewhere

“They condemn our town. Separate it from their own, where the same secrets pulse.”
― T.E. Carter, I Stop Somewhere

“Rape.
It brings with it connotations, assumptions, a whole steamer trunk full of other people's ideas of it, because other people only know it as a word. A concept that's discussed, argued, demonized. If you actually know what it is, if you live it and experience it and know what it is beyond a word, you have to carry that word with you. You're now 'rape victim', 'rape survivor'. Your identity is attached permanently to a word you hate.”
― T.E. Carter