Rachael Benton

“Let me tell you: men love cruelty. It reminds them of every time their fathers or mothers didn’t think they were good enough. Cruelty looks better on a woman than the perfect dress.”
― Lisa Taddeo, Animal

“She said women are considered strong these days only if they didn’t talk about things they loved that didn’t love them, if they didn’t get hurt or allow themselves to be occasionally humiliated at their own hands, when, really, strength was being unashamed to want what you want.”
― Lisa Taddeo, Animal

“I am not ready for anything to happen.
I should have murdered this, that murders me.”
― Sylvia Plath

“My darling, my dying, my light, my sight,
my night my whole day long.”
― Velimir Khlebnikov