Nicole

“When you grow older, you’ll tell her, you will not get over what happened, but you will reach the other side of it.”
― Roxane Gay, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

“I said yes. It’s always seemed easier.”
― Roxane Gay, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

“we are mired in a circuitous and damning dialogue, so powerful that it invalidates our experiences, our traumas, our truths—a dialogue so powerful that we begin to doubt whether our experience was ever there at all.”
― Roxane Gay, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

“Your husband is the best human you know.”
― Roxane Gay, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture