Sarah

“I didn’t know fear before. I didn’t know how it could shape you. Make you do things you didn’t want to do. I didn’t know how it lives in you like dye, like a stain that will never come out. How it works its way through you until your blood is made of it, until it is fear that pushes oxygen through your veins, fear that pumps your heart, open and shut, open and shut. The fear has no subject. It has no ground. It has only me, and some days it eats me alive.”
― Sara Sligar, Take Me Apart

“The ultimate violence patriarchy does to women is to make us believe we deserve what has been done to us—a loop forever closing, breaking us so that we will raise broken women.”
― Sady Doyle, Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers

“Men are always better at being crazy. Better at being forgiven. The blood on their hands can be real, not imagined. They can be bought and sold and still no one thinks they are owned.”
― Sara Sligar, Take Me Apart

“When Kate had been waiting out her winter, everyone told her to get over it, work through it, talk it out. As if prepositions could protect her. As if others knew whatever lay beyond was better. In reality, all anyone knew was that it came next.”
― Sara Sligar, Take Me Apart