“Culture refuses to see violence in women, and the law nurtures a special loathing for violent women. Unfettered violence, anger unleashed, the will to destroy, the need to undo —these acts run counter to everything we like to think we know about the feminine nature.”
― A Certain Hunger
― A Certain Hunger
“In life as in writing, you kill your darlings. You kill, anyway, and then you see what you can take with you.”
― A Certain Hunger
― A Certain Hunger
“You can’t be a woman without protection. Condoms fail. Pepper spray can be turned against you. Information almost never does.”
― A Certain Hunger
― A Certain Hunger
“(...) the sky was that specific shade of translucent blue that’s reserved for optimism and irony.”
― A Certain Hunger
― A Certain Hunger
“I see them, the guards, terrifying the vulnerable inmates. They’re bullies, these men living their fantasies of power, as if their squalid teenage dreams cracked open and spilled incarcerated candy at their feet.”
― A Certain Hunger
― A Certain Hunger
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