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'No one will be able to understand what it was like here unless they were here themselves.'

'Writing in captivity is powerful therapy, as important as physical exercise. Paper could take the outpouring of my emotions - the fear, the dejection, and the despair that were eating at all us prisoners from the inside, like corrosion.'

'For women, the second floor meant rape.'

'The concept of normalcy became relative; it was impossible to absorb daily torture and abuse on an ordinary person's terms and not go insane. When the mind cannot process a situation, it begins to normalize terror to preserve itself.'