arianna reardon wright

“I invite the confessionals of men. I am not a stranger to them. Absorbing the guilt and the sorrow is something the world expects of women.”
― Sophie Mackintosh, The Water Cure

“Trauma is a toxin that hooks into our hair and organs and blood and becomes part of us, the way heavy metals do, our bodies nothing more than a layering of flesh around everything ingested and experienced.”
― Sophie Mackintosh, The Water Cure

“And then his hard length is pushing into me, his groan a taste in my mouth that I swallow down and try to keep.”
― Raven Kennedy, Gild

“Crying lays you low and vulnerable, racks your body. If water is the cure for what ails us, the water that comes from our own faces and hearts is the wrong sort. It has absorbed our pain and is dangerous to let loose.”
― Sophie Mackintosh, The Water Cure