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“Why is it that when men act out it’s always someone else’s fault?”
― Delilah S. Dawson, The Violence

“To the survivors. I used to blame myself for not doing more. For not leaving earlier. For not pushing back. For not fighting him. Now I am kinder to the younger version of me. Now I believe that survival is enough.”
― Delilah S. Dawson, The Violence

“You aren’t small. You don’t have to make yourself small. You are allowed to have feelings. You are allowed to experience rage. You are allowed to take up space. You are allowed to be irrational and loud and ugly. You don’t have to make yourself less. Not ever again. You don’t have to play by those rules anymore.”
― Delilah S. Dawson, The Violence

“There's a certain point in life at which you realise it's no longer interesting that time goes forward – or rather, that its forward-going-ness has been the central plank of life's illusion, and that while you were waiting to see what was going to happen next, you were steadily being robbed of all you had. Language is the only thing capable of stopping the flow of time, because it exists in time, is made of time, yet it is eternal – or can be.”
― Rachel Cusk, Second Place