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“And I told you it was my choice", [she] said. "But I was too foolish to understand what I was choosing.”
― Christina Henry, The Mermaid

“Women who did what they liked instead of what other people wished were often accused of witchcraft, because only a witch would be so defiant, or so it was thought.”
― Christina Henry, The Mermaid

“She felt suddenly the discomfort of being the only woman in a room full of men, men who gazed at her with speculative eyes. Her body did not seem to be protected by her clothes, and she resistet the urge to turn away. They would not make her ashamed of herself. They would not make her a human woman.”
― Christina Henry, The Mermaid

“Nobody ever wants to be inconvenienced by all the things that happen to girls.”
― T.E. Carter, I Stop Somewhere

“Start by holding your head high,” Hatcher said. “You’re only a mouse if you let them make you one.”
― Christina Henry, Alice

“[She] finally realized it was because he himself did not understand what it meant to be different and to have people expect you to change for their sake. She realized that no man could understand this, really, though they expected their wives to do so every day.”
― Christina Henry, The Mermaid

“There was comfort in ignorance, in thinking the world a certain way and not knowing any different.”
― Christina Henry, Alice

“Interesting' meant that you attracted the notice of men who would hurt you to possess whatever they found 'interesting' about you.”
― Christina Henry, Alice

“Men generally don't recognize the authority of women", Levi said very gently. "It's the way of the world, Amelia. I'm sorry it distress you."
"The world", Amelia said, "is wrong about so many things.”
― Christina Henry, The Mermaid

“There were monsters in the night but there were monsters in the day too, and monsters inside people who smiled and showed you all their teeth like they were nice. There were monsters inside Alice, but they only had power if she gave it to them, and other things had power too, like the laughter of children enjoying a picnic together and like the love she had for this terrible, wonderful, imperfect man, this man who hid inside the body of a wolf because he thought that was where he belonged.”
― Christina Henry, Red Queen

“Until I became human, nobody ever told me there was something wrong with my body.”
― Christina Henry, The Mermaid

“I don't belong to you ... You thought if I married you that I would, but I don't. I don't belong to any man ... I only belong to myself. But belonging to myself doesn't mean I don't love you or that I don't want to stand beside you.”
― Christina Henry, The Mermaid

“You seem very confident in him all of a sudden," Alice said.

"He was very gentle with that girl," he said.

That, Alice realized, carried more weight with Hatcher than the rabbit's brutal disassembly of the Walrus. And that was why she loved him.”
― Christina Henry, Alice

“She knew what he offered. He would kill her first, with the gun or the knife or his fists if he had to, and make certain she was never trapped in that cage again. From another man this might be terrifying, that he would so blithely consider murdering his companion. But she understood that from Hatcher this was tantamount to an offer of marriage. This was what he could do for her, how he showed he cared.”
― Christina Henry, Alice

“The world gobbles us and chews us and swallows us,” Hatcher said, in that uncanny way he had of reading her thoughts. “I think happy endings must be accidents.”
― Christina Henry, Red Queen

“All she'd found was that women spent a great deal of time saying they were please when they were not, similing when they were not happy, and pretending their anger and frustation did not exist”
― Christina Henry, The Mermaid

“she had found her freedom and she loved it, and she would not be bound to someone else’s will again.”
― Christina Henry, The Mermaid

“People don't debate what defines murder. Politicians don't argue the body's ability to fight off being killed. There's no talk of "murder culture." No one says that you asked for murder. What you wear doesn't excuse being killed.”
― T.E. Carter, I Stop Somewhere

“The court of public opinion moves much faster than the law.”
― T.E. Carter, I Stop Somewhere

“Beth will come back and coach Gretchen and Kailey on how to say the right things. I don't know if anyone is coaching the boys, but it seems unfair. Why do Gretchen and Kailey have to learn how to be the right kind of victims?”
― T.E. Carter, I Stop Somewhere

“This isn’t a story of great romance or of true love. It’s simply a story of being lonely and how comforting it is to be called beautiful.”
― T.E. Carter, I Stop Somewhere

“People want this to be an anomaly.... we can handle monsters, we can't handle our neighbors doing these things. we can't believe these are the same people we see at Christmas parties, and basketball games.”
― T.E. Carter

“Perhaps the worst dangers in our lives are the ones we invite in.”
― T.E. Carter, I Stop Somewhere

“Rape.
It brings with it connotations, assumptions, a whole steamer trunk full of other people's ideas of it, because other people only know it as a word. A concept that's discussed, argued, demonized. If you actually know what it is, if you live and experience it and know what it is beyond a word, you have to carry that word with you. You're now "rape victim", "rape survivor." Your identity is attached permanently to a word you hate.
I'm also a murder victim, but murder carries with it what it is. People don't debate what defines murder. Politicians don't argue the body's ability to fight off being killed. There's no talk of a "murder culture." No one says that you asked for murder. What you wear doesn't excuse being killed.”
― T.E. Carter, I Stop Somewhere

“What’s the worst that can happen? I’m a nice guy.”
― T.E. Carter, I Stop Somewhere

“When I look at him I feel dismayed as I always do at how normal he looks, because surely there should be something--pointed ears or a pair of horns--to warn people of his evilness.”
― B.A. Paris, Behind Closed Doors