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“Nothing happened. Well, of course nothing happened! Isn't nothing what generally happens when you pray to the gods?”
― Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls

“We’re going to survive–our songs, our stories. They’ll never be able to forget us. Decades after the last man who fought at Troy is dead, their sons will remember the songs their Trojan mothers sang to them. We’ll be in their dreams–and in their worst nightmares too.”
― Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls

“i stand
on the sacrifices
of a million women before me
thinking
what can i do
to make this mountain taller
so the women after me
can see farther
- legacy”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

“[...] but perhaps no kindness was possible between owner and slave, only varying degrees of brutality?”
― Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls