Michaela

“Take up space, Beatrix. Don’t apologize, and don’t let the world shame you for being you.”
― Amy Award, The C*ck Down the Block

“For the perpetrator, rape lasts just a matter of minutes. For the victim, it never stops.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“To the scarred. Scars prove you lived.”
― Elizabeth Stephens, Monster in the Oasis

“One of the worst parts about someone dying is thinking back to all those times you didn’t ask the right questions, all those times you stupidly assumed you’d have all the time in the world. And this too: how all that time feels like not much time at all. What’s left feels like something manufactured. The overexposed ghosts of memories.”
― Julie Buxbaum, Tell Me Three Things