Vic

“Hatred, I learned quickly, was the antidote to sadness. It was the only safe feeling. Hatred does not make you cry at school. It isn’t vulnerable. Hatred is efficient. It does not grovel. It is pure power.”
― Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

“Despite all the coddling denied me as a child, I never became the independent island of my mother’s dreams. I’m a baby bird, chirping for anyone at all to spit food into my mouth.”
― Rivers Solomon, Model Home

“Okay, but like, what of anyone’s father. Goodness, we can’t be disappointed by men we never once believed in.”
― Rivers Solomon, Model Home

“Sometimes people tell me that something bad happened to me, but I am brave and strong. I don’t want to be told that I am brave or strong. I am not right just because he was wrong. I don’t want to be made noble. I want someone willing to watch me thrash and crumple because that, too, is the truth, and it needs a witness.”
― Roxane Gay, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture