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“I can do this… Be nice. Comforting.
The feeling fits like a too-small T-shirt, cutting into me in all the wrong places.”

“It’s that bitter laugh that all women understand. The one that’s born out of years of fear, of waiting, of what-iffing, until it finally happens. Some man takes his anger out on you”

“This isn’t about freedom.
This is about power. Everything is.”

“He gives, thinking it’s the start.
I take, knowing it’s the end.”

“Daddy handles me differently because I’m a girl. He’d never admit it, but proud as he is, he underestimates me. Mo says he can’t help it. That it’s the way fathers are.
Sometimes I think it’s just the way men are.
It used to annoy me. But then I realized it was a weakness.
And I’ve been taught to exploit weaknesses.”

“I speed up. He follows.
All he ever does is chase. And all i ever do is run… but thinking about home always brings me back to him”

“Sometimes you’ve got to save people from themselves. Even if they don’t want it or know it”

“She’d been wild, searching for the kind of free most girls never even touch”

“I realize I’ve just scraped the surface. Of the evil in the world. Of the good.
Of the strength in every woman.”

“‘Hell is what’s waiting for you,’ he says, like it’s some sort of condemnation…
‘Any heaven that lets in men like you, I don’t want anything to do with’”