Chy Risse

“I think a trauma doesn’t stop just because you’ve been rescued.”
― Dot Hutchison, The Butterfly Garden

“Some people stay broken. Some pick up the pieces and put them back together with all the sharp edges showing.”
― Dot Hutchison, The Butterfly Garden

“Sometimes you can look at a wedding and realize with a certain sense of resignation that any children produced in that marriage will inevitably be fucked up and fucked over. It’s a fact, not a sense of foreboding so much as a grim acceptance that these two people should not—but definitely will—reproduce.”
― Dot Hutchison, The Butterfly Garden

“Not making a choice is a choice. Neutrality is a concept, not a fact.”
― Dot Hutchison, The Butterfly Garden