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“I was no Cherokee. I was no warrior. I was nobody special. I was just a girl, scared and angry. When I saw myself in Daddy Glen's eyes, I wanted to die. No, I wanted to be already dead, cold and gone. Everything felt hopeless. He looked at me and I was ashamed of myself. It was like sliding down an endless hole, seeing myself at the bottom, dirty, ragged, poor, stupid.”
― Dorothy Allison, Bastard Out of Carolina

“I fell into shame like a suicide throws herself into a river. (253)”
― Dorothy Allison, Bastard Out of Carolina

“My heart broke all over again. I wanted my life back, my mama, but I knew I would never have that. The child I had been was gone with the child she had been. We were new people, and we didn't know each other anymore. I shook my head desperately.”
― Dorothy Allison, Bastard Out of Carolina

“I was supposed to be having the time of my life.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar