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"There have always been serial killers—in the sixteenth century, they were put on trial as werewolves. There are women serial killers who amass their victims by manipulating others to do their dirty work, and Black serial killers whom we rarely hear about not because they are Black but because their victims are."

“Sometimes the only way to talk about a difficult event is to give ourselves permission to stop when it gets to be too much."

"They will call you hysterical no matter how much dignity you have. So you might as well do whatever the hell you want.”

"I think about those things now, the moments of my life that passed without so much as a hint of the truth. Now they take up an inordinate amount of my time in their remembering."

"Sometimes naming a thing—giving it a name or discovering its name—helps one to begin to understand it."

"It was the kind of room that had no touch of men, either Rodolfo or previous generations. [..] This kitchen felt like a refuge."

"Respectability narratives discourage us from addressing the needs of sex workers, incarcerated women, or anyone else who has had to face hard life choices. No woman has to be respectable to be valuable."

Damn, Rachel Gillig, THIS is the kind of dark fantasy fair tale I LOVE, KILLING IT.