Lane James

“In order to get past something terrible, sometimes you have to walk through the pain, not around it.”
― Michelle Knight, Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed: A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings

“There wasn’t a clear, identifiable emotion within me, except for greed and, possibly, total disgust. I had all the characteristics of a human being—flesh, blood, skin, hair—but my depersonalization was so intense, had gone so deep, that the normal ability to feel compassion had been eradicated, the victim of a slow, purposeful erasure. I was simply imitating reality, a rough resemblance of a human being, with only a dim corner of my mind functioning. Something horrible was happening and yet I couldn’t figure out why—I couldn’t put my finger on it.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

“general competence is on the fucking decline.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

“The dude may not have hit his own daughter, but the wounds he gave her still seemed very deep.”
― Michelle Knight, Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed: A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings