Jacque Newman

“One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.”
― Michael J. Fox

“Once you tell your first lie, the first time you lie for him, you are in it with him, and then you are lost.”
― Anita Shreve, Strange Fits of Passion

“i sometimes felt as if these marks on my body were a kind of code, which blossomed, then faded, like invisible ink held to a candle. But if they were a code, who held the key to it? I was sand, I was snow—written on, rewritten, smoothed over.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“Silence, too, can be torture.”
― Justina Chen Headley, North of Beautiful