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There were times when the pressure to achieve happiness felt almost oppressive, as if happiness were something that everyone should and could attain, and that any sort of compromise in its pursuit was somehow your fault.
“courage was a lie. It was just fear that you ignored.”
― The Four Winds
― The Four Winds
“Love. In the best of times, it is a dream. In the worst of times, a salvation.”
― The Four Winds
― The Four Winds
“If you survive, you have to prove it was that bad; or else, they think you are.
Surviving is some kind of sin, like floating up off the dunking stool like a witch. You have to be permanently écorchée, heart-on-sleeve, offering up organs and body parts like a medieval female saint.”
― Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
Surviving is some kind of sin, like floating up off the dunking stool like a witch. You have to be permanently écorchée, heart-on-sleeve, offering up organs and body parts like a medieval female saint.”
― Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
“Ask a man what his greatest fear is about serving jail time, and he will almost inevitably say he fears being raped. What can we deduce from the fact that jail is to men what life is to so many women?”
― Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger
― Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger
“What is a person, if not the marks they leave behind?”
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
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The aim of this readathon is fairly simple - all you need to do is try to “slay” all those series you’ve been neglecting! HOSTS Chami | ReadLikeWildF ...more
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