I gazed into the water. “If a person finds the one they truly love, they should hold onto them with every ounce of their spirit. They should hold them so tight, not even death can part them, reuniting them life after life.” “You speak of
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“The other charges alleged that from 1994 to 1997, Maxwell helped Epstein recruit, groom, and sexually abuse girls as young as fourteen years old. These initial charges mentioned three unidentified minor victims, though”
― Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
― Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
“Until Tom watched Grace unpack her clothes”
― Finding Grace
― Finding Grace
“She was uncomfortable, the more so because it was Gytha who was telling her about it. Ragna knew that mothers could be irrationally hostile to their sons’ women, and that probably applied to stepmothers, too.”
― The Evening and the Morning
― The Evening and the Morning
“Donald Trump was now president, and in early 2017 he nominated Alexander Acosta—the former federal prosecutor based in Miami who had approved Epstein’s shameful, secretive nonprosecution agreement—to be secretary of labor. Acosta was confirmed in April 2017.”
― Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
― Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
“In November 2018, Brown’s series of articles, accompanied by Michot’s videos, went live. The series was called “Perversion of Justice,” and in it, Brown revealed the behind-the-scenes maneuvering that had led to Epstein’s nonprosecution agreement, zeroing in on Acosta’s role in it. She uncovered eighty victims of Epstein, some as young as thirteen when the abuse occurred, and revealed the campaign of terror that Epstein and his cronies had used to try to silence those victims. (Remember when that car shined its headlights on our front door in Colorado? Well, Brown found a victim in Florida who’d endured the same kind of hazing.) Finally, the series documented the experience of eight survivors in detail, with on-the-record interviews. I was among them.”
― Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
― Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
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