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“To deny my messiness would be to deny my humanity. I don’t believe there is such a thing as an immaculate past or a perfect victim. Yet now I felt I was being upheld to an impossible standard of purity, worried that failing to meet it would justify Brock raping me. His attorney would simplify, generalize, and mislabel my history.”
― Know My Name
― Know My Name
“Then she thought about an American author who had written that loneliness is like starvation, you don’t realize how hungry you are until you begin to eat.”
― Anxious People
― Anxious People
“In order to get over a problem it helps to look at it. You can’t climb a mountain that you pretend isn’t there.”
― The Comfort Book
― The Comfort Book
“Kindness could be so much more painful than cruelty.”
― Lady in the Lake
― Lady in the Lake
“Check your emotional armour is actually protecting you, and not so heavy you can't move.”
― The Comfort Book
― The Comfort Book
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