Bard Ampora

“Who are you? You are nobody. You are nothing.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

“Later, you will learn that a common feature of domestic abuse is "dislocation." That is to say, the victim has just moved somewhere new or she's somewhere where she doesn't speak the language, or has been otherwise uprooted from her support network, her friends or family, her ability to communicate. She is made vulnerable by her circumstance, her isolation. Her only ally is her abuser, which is to say she has no ally at all.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

“And so she has to struggle against an unchangeable landscape that has been hammered into existence by nothing less than time itself; a house that is too big to dismantle by hand; a situation too complex and overwhelming to master on her own.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

“It is not an extraordinary thing to claim that some people are more valuable than others to the world”
― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House