Nicole

“The friendly guy who helps you move and assists senior citizens in the pool is the same guy who assaulted me. One person can be capable of both. Society often fails to wrap its head around the fact that these truths often coexist, they are not mutually exclusive. Bad qualities can hide inside a good person. That’s the terrifying part.”
― Chanel Miller, Know My Name: A Memoir

“In each line, I found common, common, a part of, everybody, everybody. This pattern was not an accident. He was leading Brock back into the herd, where he could blend into the comfort of community. Compare this to when he had questioned me: You did a lot of partying. You’ve had blackouts before. It was you and you, the lens fixed so close I was stripped of surrounding. For Brock, his goal was to integrate, for me it was to isolate.”
― 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

“I felt a little lighter. I’d stated my truth unapologetically, and for a moment I’d held the power, made the men fidget, cast their eyes down.”
― Chanel Miller, Know My Name: A Memoir