Hurt for Me

by Heather Levy

I suppose sooner or later in the life of everyone comes a moment of trial. We all of us have our particular devil who rides us and torments us, and we must give battle in the end. —Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

It was better to buoy her with lies than drown her in a truth that would crush her.

She was a survivor, but sometimes she wondered at what point a person stops surviving and starts imploding. Angel

“If you’re told something often enough by someone you love, you start to believe it.

“Why do so many men want to hurt women?” She didn’t say it because she expected an answer. It was only a question she had asked herself many times, and it fell easily from her lips.

“Because it’s easier for men to take something than to earn it,” he said after a moment. “Men are taught to take things because it shows they’re powerful. And a man without power is nothing in our society.”