arianna reardon wright

“Absorbing the guilt and the sorrow is something the world expects of women.”
― Sophie Mackintosh, The Water Cure

“It is Sky who saves us. It will always be a woman who saves us, we know that now. The protections of men are only ever flimsy and self-serving.”
― 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

“I think about another type of revenge -the quieter, less explosive kind I could inflict just by living my life in spite of him.”
― Ella Berman, The Comeback