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“Tomato, tomahto. Ass rape is ass rape. Just thinking about it makes me jittery;
So, she raised me the way she was raised, the way her mother was raised, the way her mother’s mother was raised, and so on, all the way back to that naked slut Eve, whose downfall could’ve been prevented had she made better choices.
Feel your feelings, she repeats. Feel your feelings.
But it’s not as if the girl waits, passively, to be chosen. In her own way, she chooses him too.
Say what now?!
Emotions wax and wane. But you can’t say every girl has no agency, that we’re all weak and foolish, that we don’t know our own minds. To deny me choice over my body is to deny me a self. To deny me a me.
Such a dangerous statement.
We’re not finished. You can’t tell anyone. Do not do this, Diana. I WILL NOT LET YOU. You’ll ruin our lives. It’s not true. Nothing you’re saying is true.
he circles you can’t tell anyone.
“That you will tell people he’s addicted to porn and unable to maintain an erection during sexual activity?”
That she saw us never crossed my mind, not once. But now it hits me: the vase was a prop. She was just pretending to check the label.
To pretend otherwise would make me complicit. Part of the conspiracy. Haven’t I been doing this all along? Didn’t I always know deep down about my brother, even if I didn’t want to?
As for your family, when you’re ready, you’ll forgive them.”
“Forgive them? I’m the one who ruined us, who . . .”
“They didn’t protect you.”
“They didn’t know.”
“Cassie, there are no secrets in families. We sense when something is wrong, or off, even if we can’t say exactly what it is. To say Eleanor didn’t know is bullshit. She should’ve known. A parent’s job is to know. She brought you into her home. She rais...
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“What Diana saw was Cassie trying to kiss me. I was fending her off.”
‘there’s no one more dangerous than a teenage girl.’”
Are you kidding me?
Lawrence is two people away from me, on the other side of the Bowtie. Billy, the rapist, is on the stand. We’re the Quinns. Five strong. A united front.
Absolutely not
You can be both a victim and an offender, but in this case, they don’t cancel each other out.
