Julia

“If you had to shoot a man, society had already failed.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Bands of Mourning

“Does he really believe he'd ever go to prison, a Harvard-educated, well-spoken white man?”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“I had no reason to care about rape then—I was a lucky kid, safe and securely loved—but that story hit me hard. Somehow I sensed what was coming for me even then. Really, though, what girl doesn’t? It looms over you, that threat of violence. They drill the danger into your head until it starts to feel inevitable. You grow up wondering when it’s finally going to happen.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“The excuses we make for them are outrageous, but they’re nothing compared with the ones we make for ourselves.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa