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Tell me, what would you do for someone you love?
Does it look like I need help? Nope. But those are usually the people who need the most help.
The best prisons are the ones created in our own minds.
That the truth is these people are not strangers. They are the men who you sleep with, the men you work with, the men you raise. I wish this wasn’t what it means to be female—it is not a matter of if something bad will happen, but when.
HERE IS A TIP FOR all the girls out there: Never let an abductor take you to a second location.
When you study what you’ve been through, what happened to you, it loses its power, and then you have a choice: stay or move on.
Why are women most often the target of bitter men?
The greatest trick the devil ever played wasn’t convincing others he didn’t exist, but that your friends were your enemies.
Do you ever think about the tiny moments in time? The ones that take seconds? The ones you’d go back and do anything to unravel?
“When did the world become such an unfriendly place?”
“I heard this anecdote once about how you can fight with your sister over a glass of water, but if she needed a kidney, you’d be the first in line,”
Daylight coming. Storms brewing. A sister can always tell.
Aren’t goodbyes strange? Isn’t it funny how you spend your entire life practicing saying it, but when it comes down to the real thing, it’s near impossible?
When you take a life, you lose a little of yours, too. I never thought it was possible to be alive and dead at the same time.
Love can push you to make the ultimate sacrifice.
Why did no one ever tell Lydia that the most dangerous thing in the world isn’t natural disasters or wars or weapons? It is unremarkable men with beautiful smiles and even bigger promises.
When will it be enough? How society accepts women dying at the hands of men.
