Ace Simek

“There wasn’t any proof,” he says, his voice rising defensively. “That’s what everyone said. They said that girl was lying.” “That girl has a name.” Grace tries to kill him with her eyes. When nothing happens, she turns around and storms away. “Wait, Grace,” he says. She stops walking but keeps her back to him. “You don’t understand. You weren’t here. Everything was crazy after Lucy said all that stuff. Everyone at school, the whole town was, like, falling apart.” “Yeah?” she says. “The town was falling apart?” She turns her head and looks him in the eyes. “How do you think she felt?”
― Amy Reed, The Nowhere Girls

“Silence does not mean yes. No can be thought and felt but never said. It can be screamed silently on the inside. It can be in the wordless stone of a clenched fist, fingernails digging into palm. Her lips sealed. Her eyes closed. His body just taking, never asking, never taught to question silence”
― Amy Reed, The Nowhere Girls