Avalon Richards

“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

“It was comforting to think that the earth always found a place for us.”
― Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women

“There are rituals around dying. They’re not for the dead, they’re for those of us who are left behind.”
― Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women

“It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil.”
― Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women