Lexi Nicolato

“People will go to extraordinary lengths to hurt those they love; far more than they ever do for those they hate.”
― Alice Feeney

“We had survived the prison, the plain and the loss of all hope, but the women had discovered that survival is no more than putting off the moment of death.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“I’ve waited for that mature, elevated calm, but my thirtieth birthday was months ago, and if anything, I care more than ever. I care about shopping cart placement and plastic in the oceans and being a good listener. I care about how I seem to fuck everything up all the time. I care and I care, and I hate myself for it.”
― Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

“We don’t recognize how much we carry our experiences in our bodies. If something is coming up”—she looked at me—“it has to come out.”
― Amy Griffin, The Tell: A Memoir