Stephanie Jaurigue

“Some of the girls were boys. The view changes from where you are standing. Words can wound, and wounds can heal. All of these things are true.”
― Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

“We don't always control what happens to us. But we always control how we interpret what happens to us, as well as how we respond.”
― Miriam Toews, Women Talking

“A long life filled with laughter, tears, quarrels, embraces, confessions, silences, and sudden impulses of the heart: and yet sometimes it seems that time has not moved by at all. The future still stretches out to infinity.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, La Femme Rompue: L'age De Discretion Monologue

“And so, when a man comes along and talks like one’s own father and acts like him, even adults … will submit to this man, will acclaim him, allow themselves to be manipulated by him, and put their trust in him, finally surrendering entirely to him without even being aware of their enslavement. One is not normally aware of something that is a continuation of one’s own childhood.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Maidens