Jules

“My pain was never more valuable than his potential.”
― Chanel Miller, Know My Name

“How do you come after me, when it is all of us? One of the greatest dangers of victimhood is the singling out; all of your attributes and anecdotes assigned blame. In court they’ll try to make you believe you are unlike the others, you are different, an exception. You are dirtier, more stupid, more promiscuous. But it’s a trick. The assault is never personal, the blaming is.”
― Chanel Miller, Know My Name

“Hope is not a door, but a sense that there might be a door at some point, some way out of the problems of the present moment even before the way is found or followed.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power

“Something knots a friendship, or raises the emotional content to a new plane. Some final door must open between two people if they are to become true friends; a total acceptance each of the other has to take place.”
― May Sarton, A World of Light: Portraits and Celebrations