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“I told people I was taking a gap year, but the truth was that I wanted to do nothing, absolutely nothing, for as long as possible, maybe for the rest of my life.”
― In the Woods
― In the Woods
“I am not good at noticing when I'm happy, except in retrospect.”
― In the Woods
― In the Woods
“Girls in those stories are always victims, and I am not. And it doesn’t have anything to do with what Strane did or didn’t do to me when I was younger. I’m not a victim because I never wanted to be, and If I didn’t want to be, then I’m not. That’s how it works. The difference between rape and sex is state of mind. You can’t rape the willing, right?”
― My Dark Vanessa
― My Dark Vanessa
“Some part of me believed, unassailably, and wordlessly and perhaps with a flick of justice, that they had sent me away because they were afraid of me. Like some monstrously deformed child who should never have lived beyond infancy, or a conjoined twin whose other half died under the knife, I had- simply by surviving-become a freak of nature.”
― In the Woods
― In the Woods
“I wonder how much victimhood they’d be willing to grant a girl like me.”
― My Dark Vanessa
― My Dark Vanessa
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