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“What am I going to do when I can’t pick up the phone and call her?”
― Micalea Smeltzer, The Resurrection of Wildflowers

“Trauma is deep-rooted and sometimes we don’t even realize how it’s influencing us.”
― Micalea Smeltzer, The Resurrection of Wildflowers

“I hope you’re not hurting anymore, Mom.”
― Micalea Smeltzer, The Resurrection of Wildflowers

“Our mom suffered so much in her life, a life that was much too short, and all we can do is hope that there really is a better place out there, because if there’s anyone who deserves it, it’s her.”
― Micalea Smeltzer, The Resurrection of Wildflowers

“Our loved ones never really leave us—not as long as we remember. Even when it hurts, even when the pain is unbearable, we have to remember.”
― Micalea Smeltzer, The Resurrection of Wildflowers

“We describe a woman as having been raped; we discuss the rates of women sexually assaulted or beaten. We do not speak in terms of men committing rape or being sexual assaulters and violent abusers.”
― Laura Bates, Men Who Hate Women: From Incels to Pickup Artists: The Truth about Extreme Misogyny and How it Affects Us All

“(The fact that the Matrix trilogy was created by two transgender women or that its kick-ass female characters would revolt against the misogynistic ideology of any manosphere community is an irony apparently lost on incels.)”
― Laura Bates, Men Who Hate Women: From Incels to Pickup Artists: The Truth about Extreme Misogyny and How it Affects Us All

“Growth isn’t a deviation from what we’ve done before, but a natural progression to honor all those who make this community strong.”
― Aiden Thomas, Cemetery Boys

“One day, whether you are 14, 28, or 65, you will stumble upon someone who will start a fire in you that cannot die. However, the saddest, most awful truth you will ever come to find— is they are not always with whom we spend our lives.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“You don’t have to be cruel to be strong. You don’t have to be mean to seem brave. You don’t have to look down on others in order to stand tall. Having emotions does not mean you’re weak. It means you’re smart enough to let yourself feel.”
― Raven Kennedy, Glow

“That’s the thing with trauma to the body—it shows up instantly. In breaks and bruises, in burns and in blood. But the trauma on the inside, that’s harder to see. It creeps around your mind, poisons you with disquiet. It can hit you out of nowhere, debilitating and ruinous. There are no marks visible for those. None, save the shadows in your eyes.”
― Raven Kennedy, Glow

“Maybe none of us truly know our own strength. Not until the world has hacked away at us. But the point is, we aren’t strong because of our trauma. We were always strong to begin with. We just needed to figure it out for ourselves.”
― Raven Kennedy, Glow

“You never notice what’s keeping you balanced until you realize you’re not standing straight anymore”
― Raven Kennedy, Glow

“He finds every aching part and helps me work through it. Even when I don’t want to.”
― Raven Kennedy, Glow

“The safest way I learned to react to situations was to endure. To let things blow over. To please. To peace keep.”
― Raven Kennedy, Glow

“One person’s pain doesn’t negate another’s. Our heartaches are not competition, but the bridge to empathy. So that we can look at one another and know that on some level, we understand. That’s one beautiful thing about grief, I think. That sometimes, we can find someone in the world to look at from the other side of the bridge of our torments and know that we are not alone.”
― Raven Kennedy, Glow

“And when it comes to saddles, respect is the last thing society ever gives them. Saddles fill the wants of men and women, work to satisfy sensual cravings. They perform and please, actualizing desires, earning both a sense of power and their own wealth by doing so. And what happens? People hate it. They call it a sin, a vice. They beat it down. Claim that saddles are deplorable and dirty, the bottom dregs of society, unimportant and low-ranking. Except, behind closed doors, those very same people expect to have their urges satisfied. Expect to be pleased and pleasured, brought bliss and assuaged of their basest of needs. And yet, a saddle isn’t even worth a life.”
― Raven Kennedy, Glow

“one never truly knows another until they see the darkness inside. Then we made the choice to love all their jagged, broken edges or not.”
― L.J. Andrews, Broken Souls and Bones

“you were here one second and then you were gone the next. my mind still has a hard time accepting that.”
― Jenna Lowthert, The Weight Of What's Gone: Words & Thoughts From A Grieving Heart | Grief Quotes & Poems

“i hate the month of may and that feeling that i get when spring approaches. the flowers start to bloom. the sun starts to stay. and while the world around me sings.. i still mourn the loss that may brought to me.”
― Jenna Lowthert, The Weight Of What's Gone: Words & Thoughts From A Grieving Heart | Grief Quotes & Poems

“What happened?” he demanded, glaring down at me. “Who the fuck made you cry?” “What?” I breathed, shaking my head. “I’m not crying.” “Your eyes are red and swollen,” he deadpanned. “You’ve been crying.” His eyes moved to my cheek. “The fuck happened to your face?”
― Chloe Walsh, Binding 13

“You love his sister, and I love his sister’s best friend,” Gibsie replied, scrubbing Joey down with a sponge. “It’s safe to say that pussy got us into this, Kav.”
― Chloe Walsh, Keeping 13

“What do you think it’s like in his head?” “A happy place?” I offered with a weak shrug.”
― Chloe Walsh, Keeping 13

“we both know that the foundations on which our laws are built have a lot less to do with common sense than religion.”
― Chloe Walsh, Saving 6

“He heard the word no, took the meaning, and obliged without complaint or confrontation. It was so refreshing.”
― Chloe Walsh, Saving 6

“I don’t see a future for us, but that’s not because I don’t want one with her. It’s because I don’t see a future for myself, period.”
― Chloe Walsh, Saving 6

“While some had chosen to turn away, upset that this unpleasantness had invaded their space of cat videos and baby pictures, others drew closer—realizing that they had been missing something very important all along.”
― Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race

“Money is also a social construct—a series of rules and agreements we all made up while pretending that these pieces of paper are worth our entire lives.”
― Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race

“There are very few hardships out there that hit only people of color and not white people, but there are a lot of hardships that hit people of color a lot more than white people.”
― Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race

“Poor people shouldn’t have to prove how much they deserve to have a roof over their heads and feed their children.”
― Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race