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“And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone. Do you think?”
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“There were men who cracked their knuckles while divulging to me what they would do to the defendant if they got the chance, thinking this was somehow reassuring for me to hear. But all it did was make me realize that there wasn't so big a difference between the man who brutalized Denise and half the men I passed every day on the street.”
― Bright Young Women
― Bright Young Women
“Right here, right now, I want you to forget two things: he was nothing special, and what happened was not random.”
― Bright Young Women
― Bright Young Women
“Women are expected to absorb traumas both subtle and loud and move on. Shoulder the weight of the world. But when the world fucks with us, the worst thing we can do is bury it. Embracing it makes us strong enough to fuck the world right back.”
― Seven Days in June
― Seven Days in June
“The truth is something people will go to great lengths to keep for themselves. It shouldn't feel like a gift when you get it, but it is.”
― Bright Young Women
― Bright Young Women
“I've tried to make sense of how someone who didn't stalk his victims in advance ended up going after the best and the brightest. And I think that's it, the thing they all had in common - a light that outshone his. He targets college campuses and sorority houses because he's looking for the cream of the crop. He wants to extinguish us - we are the ones who remind him that he's not that smart, not that good-looking, and there's nothing particularly special about him.”
― Bright Young Women
― Bright Young Women
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