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“There were men who cracked their knuckles while divulging to me what they would do to the defendant if they got the chance, thinking this was somehow reassuring for me to hear. But all it did was make me realize that there wasn't so big a difference between the man who brutalized Denise and half the men I passed every day on the street.”
― Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anais Nin

“life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you react to it.”
― Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre