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This is what time travel is. It’s looking at a person, and seeing them in the present and the past, concurrently.
“Things grow differently when they’re damaged, showing us how to occupy strange new ground to bloom red instead of green. We can be found, brighter than before.”
― Bright Young Women
― Bright Young Women
“But mostly, I continue to be drawn to mediation because I know better than anyone that All-American Sex Killers are not born, that they come from broken and battered homes, human systems that fail them well before they reach the penal ones, and then they go out into a world that tells them that women are deserving depositories for their impotence and rage.”
― Bright Young Women
― Bright Young Women
“Criticism is still a cousin of attention.”
― All-Night Pharmacy
― All-Night Pharmacy
“Time does not heal all wounds. Grief is just like a sink full of dirty dishes or a pile of soiled laundry. Grief is a chore you have to do and it's a messy one at that.”
― Bright Young Women
― Bright Young Women
“Women got that feeling about him, that funny one we all get when we know something isn't right, but we don't know how to politely extricate ourselves from the situation without escalating the threat of violence or harassment. That is not a skill women are taught, the same way men are not taught that it is okay to leave a woman alone if what she wants is to be left alone.”
― Bright Young Women
― Bright Young Women
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