What Kind of Girl Quotes

“Maybe I have to stop trying to be one thing or another. Maybe I need to accept the ways I contradict myself. Maybe that's what it is to be human.”
― Alyssa B. Sheinmel, What Kind of Girl

“But how could I have been a good best friend - or girlfriend, or daughter - when I was so busy balancing the different parts of myself that I never got to actually be myself?”
― Alyssa B. Sheinmel, What Kind of Girl

“Later, I'll think that there are so many versions of this question, versions that have been asked thousands of times by thousands of people thousands of different ways: Why didn't some girl scream even when there was a knife to her throat? Why didn't another girl bit and kick and scratch even when the man forcing himself on her was a foot taller and twice her weight? Some version of this question has been asked by judges and defense attorneys and journalists and random observers because they think they know something about survival; because they believe they know how they'd behave under cicumstances they've probably never experienced.”
― Alyssa B. Sheinmel, What Kind of Girl

“That's good love. The kind of love that's there even when you're a mess, even when you're so disappointed in yourself that you can't imagine you're worth loving.”
― Alyssa Sheinmel, What Kind of Girl

“Whatever it is, I’ll accept that part too.”
― Alyssa Sheinmel, What Kind of Girl

“Because he never did ask - not the first time he put his hands up my shirt or down my pants, not the first time he unhooked my bra or moved his mouth from one spot to the next. It was as though I'd given him all the permission he needed as soon as I said yes the day he asked me out. I don't know if I would've stopped him, had he asked along the way - I wanted to be with him too. But maybe he should've asked. At least once.”
― Alyssa B. Sheinmel, What Kind of Girl