Agnes

“Because even if I sometimes use the word abuse to describe certain things that were done to me, in someone else’s mouth the word turns ugly and absolute. It swallows up everything that happened.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“You will never get death out of your system.”
― Dana Levin, Banana Palace

“Maybe that's true about all larger than life people, or it may be that no one really ever knows them at all - we just have experiences near them and claim them as our own.”
― Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water

“I will never know how you see red and you will never know how I see it.”
― Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red