Noémie

“At the end of class, he stops me on my way out the door and hands me my essay on Lavinia from Titus Andronicus. I focused on her torn-out tongue and torn-off hands, her subsequent silence, the failure of language in the face of rape.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“I believe all men have a rapist in them, just dying to get out.”
― Lisa Taddeo, Animal

“Which I didn’t consider sex. Because the thing is, one could call it rape. It was half a rape, or three quarters of one. Like Alice said, there are rapes for which we shower, put on our nice shoes.”
― Lisa Taddeo, Animal

“Ça va r'venir, inquiète-toi pas. Vivre c'est comme le vélo. Ça revient toujours.”
― Virginie DeChamplain, Les falaises