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“To get out as quickly and as completely as I could. To burn down the house, to lock him inside, to forget it all as rapidly as reality would allow.”
― Megan Nolan, Acts of Desperation

“I was happy, as I always am in the sea, the only place I have ever found where my body feels natural and mine and being used according to its intent. I am weightless but not insubstantial. I am always sure of what my body should be doing there. I feel seal-like, the fat I normally hate becomes sleek and normal in water, my inelegant body can be strong there.”
― Megan Nolan, Acts of Desperation

“I give so much pleasure to so many people. Why can’t I get some pleasure for myself?”
― Megan Nolan, Acts of Desperation

“I feel like that’s exactly what he’s doing to me—breaking me apart, putting me back together as someone new.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa