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“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

“... the problem with being honest, he said, is that you're slow to realize that other people can lie.”
― Rachel Cusk, Transit

“Why did living feel so invisibly brief and unbearably long at once?”
― Catherine Lacey, Pew

“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