Watson Hepler

“Judith Butler says that we suffer from out condition of addressability. My body feels like my condition, and everything feels like an address.”
― Claire Schwartz, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“My brother once called me a hard person. I think he meant that I am a person who does not forgive. This is true. I find it difficult to forgive people who have done harm to me. I am this way out of necessity, because if I do not remember the harm done to me, then no one will, and the boy that I was will have no one to look out for him.”
― Brandon Taylor, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

“Is there some inherent flaw in me, that's made me react this way? There's such a drastic quality to my fear: letting one encounter affect thousands of evenings afterward. There's something so naive about insisting that daylight makes a difference. Why do I imagine that violence wears a wristwatch?”
― Nicole Boyce