thenightitself

“You think you know hardship, but men have a gift for finding new ways to make women suffer.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

“I’m certain the opinions of strangers weigh less than the joy you would be robbing yourself of if you let yourself fear them.”
― R. Raeta, Pits & Poison: These Godly Lies

“A man in the UK is 230 times more likely to be raped himself than be falsely accused of rape, so low is the number of false allegations.15 In the meantime, 85,000 women each year in the UK experience rape or attempted rape.16”
― Laura Bates, Men Who Hate Women: From incels to pickup artists, the truth about extreme misogyny and how it affects us all

“There is such a thing as evil in this world,” Elias told her quietly. “It does not help to look away from it. It does not even help, necessarily, to look at it.” His fingers brushed through her hair, and she shivered. “But sometimes, when you cannot force the world to come to its senses, you must settle only for wiping away some of the small evils in front of you.”
― Olivia Atwater, Half a Soul