How to Wrestle a Girl Quotes

“Back then I stared deeply at people the way children do, still curious. He existed. I didn’t expect him to look back, though. Children are rarely seen, but I wasn’t a child anymore and had not yet fully realized that. Now strangers could assert their judgements on my whole body, my whole story, without permission.”
― Venita Blackburn, How to Wrestle a Girl: Stories