The Return of Ellie Black Quotes

“what is grief but the other side of love?”
― Emiko Jean, The Return of Ellie Black

“But often, Chelsey wondered if her father, if people in general, should spend less time protecting daughters and more time worrying about sons. The dangerous things boys do. How they might be raised differently.”
― Emiko Jean, The Return of Ellie Black

“Did no one ever tell Lydia that the most dangerous thing in the world isn't natural disasters or wars or weapons? It is unremarkable men with beautiful smiles and even bigger promises.”
― Emiko Jean, The Return of Ellie Black

“I wish this wasn't what it means to be female -- it is not a matter of if something bad will happen, but when.”
― Emiko Jean, The Return of Ellie Black

“Danny seemed nice. But it was the nice guys you had to watch out for. The mean ones, they wore their crimes on their sleeves, carting them around with all their messy emotional baggage. Nice guys buried things deep.”
― Emiko Jean, The Return of Ellie Black

“When you study what you’ve been through, what happened to you, it loses its power, and then you have a choice: stay or move on.”
― Emiko jean, The Return of Ellie Black

“you cannot save yourself from heartbreak. You cannot save yourself from grief.”
― Emiko Jean, The Return of Ellie Black

“When will it be enough? How society accepts women dying at the hands of men.”
― Emiko Jean, The Return of Ellie Black

“people in general, should spend less time protecting daughters and more time worrying about sons. The dangerous things boys do. How they might be raised differently.”
― Emiko Jean, The Return of Ellie Black

“Because what is grief but the other side of love?”
― Emiko Jean, The Return of Ellie Black

“A careful calculation multiplied by parents’ wealth, then divided by race and religion. The poorer and darker a girl, the less funds and time the department allocated to her rescue—after all, the public is a little less outraged when those types of girls go missing.”
― Emiko Jean, The Return of Ellie Black

“That is how healing starts, bandaging those past wounds. When you study what you’ve been through, what happened to you, it loses its power, and then you have a choice: stay or move on.”
― Emiko Jean, The Return of Ellie Black

“Chelsey wondered if her father, if people in general, should spend less time protecting daughters and more time worrying about sons.”
― Emiko Jean, The Return of Ellie Black

“People are conditioned to believe girls plus bad choices equals bad things. It’s a type of inoculation. Lead a good life, and nothing heinous will befall you. But no one is invulnerable. No one untouched.”
― Emiko Jean, The Return of Ellie Black

“should have taught his daughters that you cannot save yourself from heartbreak. You cannot save yourself from grief. “How is she?” Sam asks.”
― Emiko Jean, The Return of Ellie Black

“Who are made to learn there are bad people everywhere. That the truth is these people are not strangers. They are the men who you sleep with, the men you work with, the men you raise. I wish this wasn’t what it means to be female—it is not a matter of if something bad will happen, but when.”
― Emiko Jean, The Return of Ellie Black

“if the two of you invented love?”
― Emiko Jean, The Return of Ellie Black

“A sob tears from Ellie’s throat, the grief too much to hold on to. The pressure eases. “I’m scared,” she repeats. “Me too,” he admits. “This is uncharted territory. But I’ll hang on if you do.”
― Emiko Jean, The Return of Ellie Black

“She is still the person he fell in love with. The only person, the only girl in the world, capable of destroying him.”
― Emiko Jean, The Return of Ellie Black

“when someone becomes… overwhelmed, a person may disassociate. It’s a survival response. And it can manifest in many ways—amnesia, identity confusion or alteration, depersonalization…”
― Emiko Jean, The Return of Ellie Black

“Here’s what I learned about the human body: It is hardwired to live. No matter how much you will your heart to cease its gentle beating, it will endure.”
― Emiko Jean, The Return of Ellie Black

“That the truth is these people are not strangers. They are the men who you sleep with, the men you work with, the men you raise. I wish this wasn’t what it means to be female—it is not a matter of if something bad will happen, but when.”
― Emiko Jean, The Return of Ellie Black

“The best prisons are the ones created in our own minds.”
― Emiko Jean, The Return of Ellie Black

“he repeated. I’ll help. She scoffed. Does it look like I need help? Nope. But those are usually the people who need the most help. She did not want to like him. You got some weird kind of savior syndrome? Only when it comes to pretty girls. He grinned then,”
― Emiko Jean, The Return of Ellie Black

“All of this… all of it is preventable.”
― Emiko Jean, The Return of Ellie Black

“did no one ever tell Lydia that the most dangerous thing in the world isn’t natural disasters or wars or weapons? It is unremarkable men with beautiful smiles and even bigger promises.”
― Emiko Jean, The Return of Ellie Black

“For every one thousand cases of reported rape only seven lead to felony convictions.”
― Emiko Jean, The Return of Ellie Black

“Violent men are forged. They are made. All of this… all of it is preventable.”
― Emiko Jean, The Return of Ellie Black

“Research correlates a man’s inability to show emotion to violent behavior.”
― Emiko Jean, The Return of Ellie Black

“Sexual assault is less about the act and more about domination.”
― Emiko Jean, The Return of Ellie Black