Pardis

“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

“...sometimes relationships don't die. They just don't grow. Kept from sunlight, from nourishment, they never flourish.”
― Emily Wibberley, The Roughest Draft