“She must have seen my mother in me, my father's great love with whom she could never complete, the beautiful face that surely haunted his long silences.”
― A Hymn to Life: Shame Has to Change Sides
― A Hymn to Life: Shame Has to Change Sides
“And I could see that the cost for feeling safe was being controlled. They were two sides of the same coin—protection and control.”
― Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage
― Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage
“And yet the feeling persists: love is not dead. I am not dead. I still have faith in people. Once, that was my greatest weakness. Now it is my strength. My revenge.”
― A Hymn to Life: Shame Has to Change Sides
― A Hymn to Life: Shame Has to Change Sides
“Slowly, over many months, as my head came out of the sand, a form of joy set in —joy born of replacing the not knowing with knowing, the nub of worry with clarity, the lack of control with control...I thought, 'this is better than everything I lost. This is better than the life I thought I wanted.”
― Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage
― Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage
“I had to squeeze past [the fifty defendants who had raped her] during breaks in the proceedings. I heard them talking, not even bothering to lower their voices, naturally buoyed by male camaraderie. I saw them high-fiving each other, chatting at the bar, buying rounds of beer, laughing. They bonded with each other simple because they were convinced they had done nothing wrong. And yet they didn't resemble one another . . . But they did share one thing: a sense of entitlement. An attitude of complete indifference to whatever anyone said or thought, because power had always been on their side.”
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