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“The excuses we make for them are outrageous, but they’re nothing compared with the ones we make for ourselves.”
― My Dark Vanessa
― 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.”
― My Dark Vanessa
― My Dark Vanessa
“Does he really believe he'd ever go to prison, a Harvard-educated, well-spoken white man?”
― My Dark Vanessa
― My Dark Vanessa
“Being forced into helplessness by one other person is terrible," she says, "but being humiliated in front of a crowd...I dont want to say that it's worse, but it is different. It's severely dehumanizing, especially for a child.”
― My Dark Vanessa
― My Dark Vanessa
“People will risk everything for a little bit of something beautiful.”
― My Dark Vanessa
― My Dark Vanessa
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