Kayla Burton

“To be human was to continually dumb the world down into an understandable story that keeps things simple.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“No, not crazy,” Ruby says. “Traumatized.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“How easy it is to be tricked into building a narrative out of air. Out of nothing.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“people keep saying, that you need to speak out no matter the cost.” “No,” she says firmly. “That’s wrong. It’s a dangerous amount of pressure to put on someone dealing with trauma.” “Then why do they keep saying it? Because it’s not just this journalist. It’s every woman who comes forward. But if someone doesn’t want to come forward and tell the world every bad thing that’s happened to her, then she’s what? Weak? Selfish?” I throw up my hand, wave it away. “The whole thing is bullshit.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa