Jacqui Adams

“I reserve my most elaborate delusions and disappointments for myself.”
― Roxane Gay, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

“No one's ever sat me down and taught me what empathy is or why it matters more than power or patriotism or religious faith. But I learn it right there in the hallway: I cannot do what's been done to me.”
― Zak Ebrahim, The Terrorist's Son: A Story of Choice

“For many, many years to come, I would keep telling myself that the barest minimum of acknowledgment from lovers was enough.”
― Roxane Gay, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

“I don’t want my lover seeing only a moment from my assault when they look at me. I don’t want them to think me more fragile than I am. I am stronger than I am broken. I don’t want them, or anyone, to think I am nothing more than the worst thing that has ever happened to me.”
― Roxane Gay, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body