Nati

“So many girls around the world—refugee girls in particular—suffer in silence after being sexually assaulted by someone they know. Most rapes happen at the hands of a relative or friend, not a stranger. I want girls to know that they have the power to speak out. They don’t have to stay quiet. No matter what culture or country you are from, there will always be pressure to remain silent, to never tell. But you don’t have to protect sexual predators. By speaking up, you are standing up for yourself. And you might be preventing it from happening again. Tell people what happened. The predators expect you to stay silent. You can prove them wrong.”
― Sandra Uwiringiyimana, How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child

“It's not natural for women to fight."
"It's not natural for someone to be as stupid as he is tall, and yet there you stand.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“It stops here. With me and you. It ends with us.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History