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“my boy?
he is even
better than
books.
-fiction has nothing on you.”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in This One

“Don't thank me for telling the truth when it would have been mercy to lie to you.”
― Marissa Meyer, Scarlet

“We teach our girls how not to get raped with a sense of doom, a sense that we are fighting a losing battle. When I was writing this novel, friend after friend came to me telling me of something that had happened to them. A hand up their skirt, a boy who wouldn’t take no for an answer, a night where they were too drunk to give consent but they think it was taken from them anyway. We shared these stories with one another and it was as if we were discussing some essential part of being a woman, like period cramps or contraceptives. Every woman or girl who told me these stories had one thing in common: shame. ‘I was drunk . . . I brought him back to my house . . . I fell asleep at that party . . . I froze and I didn’t tell him to stop . . .�� My fault. My fault. My fault. When I asked these women if they had reported what had happened to the police, only one out of twenty women said yes. The others looked at me and said, ‘No. How could I have proved it? Who would have believed me?�� And I didn’t have any answer for that.”
― Louise O'Neill, Asking For It

“he did not teach me how to love myself, but he was the bridge that helped me get   here.   - i thank the universe every day for you.”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in this One