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Its so romantically written- of this city - And water- that i now have the pleasure of living in and by. I must make use of the tidbits it tells me.

Such prowess over the English language- the poetic and the brash alike.

I am continually impressed with Miéville’s writing. I continue on into the invented languages and cultures thick with history, beauty, and grime alike.

“If you need something to worship, then worship life- all life, every last crawling bit of it! We’re all in this beauty together!”

We live in a time where it has become difficult to distinguish between the President’s words and that of a nineteen-year-old assailant.

I heard the familiar expectation that a victim be flawless, in order to be worthy of life.

He had given himself permission to enter me again, this time stuffing words into my mouth. He made me his real-life ventriloquist doll, put his hands inside me and made me speak.
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I’m shuddering at the imagery

When I’d said I was more of a mother to her than a sister … What happens when a person gets between a mother bear and her cub, have you read about the maulings, faces ripped clean.

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Wow, that resonates with me

Trauma provides a special way of moving through time; years fall away in an instant, we can summon terrorizing feelings as if they are happening in the present
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Something to remember when speaking about traumatic events.

Their [the boys’] behavior was the constant, while we were the variable expected to change. When did it become our job to do all the preventing and managing?

PAGE 49 and 50!!!! HOT DAMN!

In this crime, pain could be disguised and confused as pleasure. There’s no such thing as a good or bad stabbing, a consensual or nonconsensual murder.

Why didn’t you fight him? If you woke up to a robber in your home, saw him taking your stuff, people wouldn’t ask, why didn’t you tell him no?