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“How do you know if you are going to die?” I begged my mother. We had been traveling for days. With strange confidence she answered, “When you can no longer make a fist.” Naomi Shihab Nye, “Making a Fist”
“But there’s a balance in that, too. You have to examine if you’re knitting back together or if you’re simply growing defensive armor over the wound.”
Emma gives Kristin her other hand, because she’s right, they’re still girls. But she isn’t sure what that signifies anymore, except that girls are the ones who always end up victimized, abused, tortured, dead. What the advantage of manicured nails might be in those circumstances, she really can’t imagine.
Adrienne Rich: Her wounds came from the same source as her power.
“You didn’t survive Huxton because of worthiness, Emma.” He looks at her. “I don’t know how you survived. But what really matters is that you’re surviving now, in spite of everything. That survival is all down to your strength of character and will. That survival makes you a fucking force of nature.”
“Monsters don’t always look like something from a horror movie. Mostly, they just look like… normal guys.”
The last time he and Emma worked together, he had to come to terms with the idea that the monsters were real. This is just a variation on the theme: Monsters are people, and they’re living among us.
Why, Travis thinks, why why why would anyone find any pleasure in seeing women hurt, when it’s a billion times more pleasurable to see them happy?
