Tricia

“Little girls who hang around with vampires need to get used to dead things...In fact, little girls who hang around with vampires already are with dead things.”
― Vivian Vande Velde

“The best books, they don't talk about things you never thought about before. They talk about things you'd always thought about, but that you didn't think anyone else had thought about. You read them, and suddenly you're a little bit less alone in the world. You're part of this cosmic community of people who've thought about this thing, whatever it happens to be.”
― Tommy Wallach, We All Looked Up

“Often father and daughter look down on mother (woman) together. They exchange meaningful glances when she misses a point. They agree that she is not bright as they are, cannot reason as they do. This collusion does not save the daughter from the mother’s fate.”
― Bonnie Burstow, Radical Feminist Therapy: Working in the Context of Violence

“what does having lived mean once you are no longer alive?”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men