Kimberly

“That night, I began to understand that there’s a difference between someone actively trying to harm you and someone’s specific constellation of shortcomings being harmful to you. It’s the difference between an earthquake, inescapable and unanticipated, tearing everything you’ve built down and stepping into the path of a tornado even as the sirens ring out their warning.”
― Lilly Dancyger, Burn It Down: Women Writing about Anger

“There is no such thing as a lesser truth.”
― Annie Ernaux, L'événement

“I decided that deep down we're all who we were when we were kids. I think being a teenager is about hiding all your quirks and contorting yourself to fit in and impress people, and being an adult is about re-finding who you were when you were eight years old.”
― Emily Austin, We Could Be Rats: A Novel

“Inevitably, with memory comes pain.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men