Angela Carmela

“But I understood this one fact: that a thousand times I had been called Nigger, and laughed, and now I could not laugh.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“But just because you have silenced a memory does not mean you are free of it.”
― Mitch Albom, The Next Person You Meet in Heaven

“We humans make so much of 'our' time on earth. We measure it, we compare it, we put it in our tombstones.”
― Mitch Albom, The Next Person You Meet in Heaven

“The typical abusive man works to maintain a positive public image (..) Most abusive men put on a charming face for their communities, creating a sharp split between their public image and their private treatment of women and children. He may be (..) assaultive toward his partner or children but nonviolent and nonthreatening with everyone else. (..) The pain of this contrast can eat away at a woman.”
― Lundy Bancroft, Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men