Maggie

“Forgive before they do, and nothing can get to you.”
― Matthew Edward Hall

“Luxury is infantilization.”
― Matthew Edward Hall

“There, surrounding me, were volumes and volumes of words that black-hearted men had scratched down, silencing woman after woman. I thought of the city, filled with smoke and screaming; I thought of my grandmother, adding pine branches to the pyre so the smoke might kill the women before the flames; I thought of the laws and the hunts that this man – fingers linked across his belly, his portrait shining behind him – would bring back if he could.”
― Bridget Collins, The Winter Spirits: Ghostly Tales for Frosty Nights

“They carted me off to a local emergency room, where I sat in a sterile, curtain-lined room for enough hours to fill up nearly an entire day. I was waiting, just racking up my medical bills. Over the span of time I was there, I saw three other women I recognized from the rehab center who had been transferred as well. I wondered how many more there were. We were like pawns being moved around, seemingly based on our ability to pay.”
― Erin French, Finding Freedom: A Cook's Story; Remaking a Life from Scratch