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“I realized I, too, would have to learn to “let it go.” That wouldn’t mean forgetting or excusing what had happened. It would mean allowing myself to feel, to be imperfect, to love myself and others without judgment. It would mean breaking the cycles of fear and control that had been passed down to me. It would mean recognizing my power, facing my fears, and always choosing love over fear, again and again.”
— Jul 30, 2026 05:31PM
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“We were just characters in a soap opera now, except the drama was real and the consequences permanent. Our grief had been reduced to a mere commodity, packaged and sold, consumed and discarded.”
— Jul 30, 2026 05:43PM
Irene
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I wondered how the public’s consumption of others’ pain and suffering cross the line from empathy to voyeurism?
— Jul 30, 2026 05:39PM
Irene
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I wanted to scream at them all to stop. To leave it alone. Some things should remain unspoken. Some horrors should be left in the dark where they belong. This was one of them.
— Jul 30, 2026 05:38PM
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“But the past can’t be unwritten. It can only be reckoned with, learned from, one brutal day at a time.”
— Jul 30, 2026 05:07PM
Irene
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“Sometimes, family isn’t just what you’re born into—it’s also what you build in the aftermath of loss.@
— Jun 21, 2026 06:49PM
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“The idea of not existing brought a perverse sense of relief, even as the rational part of my brain fought against it.”
— Jun 20, 2026 06:22PM
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“And what does consent really look like when you’re a child, too afraid to say no?”
— Jun 20, 2026 02:56PM
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sorry for dumping a bunch if quotes from this book its just shari franke writes with the voice angsty 14 year old and its endlessly entertaining
— Jun 13, 2026 11:21AM