Nicole

“How easy it was to pretend. The slivers we show, the mountains we hide.”
― Chanel Miller, Know My Name: A Memoir

“Maumee is the first stop,” Peggy says. “It’s a suburb of Toledo, Ohio.”
― Beck Dorey-Stein, From the Corner of the Oval

“The judge had given Brock something that would never be extended to me: empathy. My pain was never more valuable than his potential.”
― Chanel Miller, Know My Name: A Memoir

“Always she, always she. I never heard the voice asking why he pulled over, why he believed I’d get in, what he might do if I did. How much was I expected to take, to absorb and ignore, while they yelled and clicked their tongues so freely, with no fear of being confronted. Was I stubborn for wanting to walk, was I asking too much?”
― Chanel Miller, Know My Name: A Memoir