The abused woman has certainly been around as long as human beings have been capable of psychological manipulation and interpersonal violence, but as a generally understood concept it—and she—did not exist until about fifty years ago.
“Willem," he said aloud to the apartment, because sometimes, when it was very bad, he spoke to him.
"Come back to me. Come back.”
― A Little Life
"Come back to me. Come back.”
― A Little Life
“I was sure that saying no to Belle’s The Notebook invite would dampen our new friendship, but she’s here, in front of me, making me all flustered and nervous. It’s almost as if I like her or something, in a more than friends way. But that’s absurd. Is it?”
― Ace of Spades
― Ace of Spades
“It isn‘t only that he died, or how he died; it is what he died believing. And so I try to be kind to everything I see, and in everything I see, I see him.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
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