Now that I am grown, I think don’t take no for an answer is a lesson we teach boys who would be better off learning that no means no.
“because if a man rejects a woman, she goes home and cries for a few days. If a woman rejects a man, he can rape and kill her.”
― Pretty Girls
― Pretty Girls
“I’m fucked in the head. And dealing with this man—I am beyond stressed. This just can’t be good for my skin.”
― Haunting Adeline
― Haunting Adeline
“We meet fear, he’d said. We greet the unexpected visitor and listen to what he has to tell us. When fear arrives, something is about to happen.”
― The Six of Crows Duology
― The Six of Crows Duology
“I would come for you,” he said, and when he saw the wary look she shot him, he said it again. “I would come for you. And if I couldn’t walk, I’d crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we’d fight our way out together—knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that’s what we do. We never stop fighting.”
― Crooked Kingdom
― Crooked Kingdom
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