Becky

“I too would die and that, like him, I would prop myself up and remain upright, looking straight ahead until the last, and, when death triumphed over my gaze, I would be like a proud monument raised with hatred in the face of silence.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“I said to myself that if it hadn’t killed the women, it was because a woman can’t die of sorrow.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“Being beautiful, was that for men?'
'Yes. Some women say that it is for ourselves. What on earth can we do with it? I could have loved myself whether I was hunchbacked or lame, but to be loved by others, you had to be beautiful.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“When it came to the dark fuckery of the human heart, there seemed to be no limit.”
― Stephen King, Full Dark, No Stars