Brigitta

“If you can’t say no in relationships, then you can’t be intimate,” Dr. Rosen said. “Say that again.” I held still so that each word would seep inside me, past my skin and muscle, and settle in my bones. “If you can’t say no, there can be no intimacy.” People said no to me all the time, and I still loved them.”
― Christie Tate, Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life

“June, as usual, has burst in without warning, and everyone but Ed is making the most of their one life.”
― Oisín McKenna, Evenings and Weekends

“Life was just like this, sometimes. You think you’re going to sail off into the sunset with Prince Charming, and instead you end up listening to a stranger getting his dick sucked on a Greyhound bus.”
― RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings

“How many times in her life has she said yes to a boy or a man just because it was the easiest thing to do? How many times has she let a man take what he wanted, instead of taking something for herself?”
― Liz Moore, The God of the Woods