“Hearts break along the same lines they broke before, I find, and they hurt no less in the rebreaking.”

“An option means decision, and a decision means acknowledging something is wrong and the shame one can no longer hide from.”

“Naama Yehuda @NaamaYehuda 42s42 seconds ago Sometimes when the path is obscured all we can do is find the best way through the current moment and hope things will clear up ahead.”

“Death is just another path to take, as real as morning.”

“It's not that you should never love something so much that it can control you.It's that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled.It's not a weakness.It's your best strength.”

“No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have you own way.”

“The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.”

“Times and scenes like that put Janie to thinking about the inside state of her marriage. Time came when she fought back with her tongue as best she could, but it didnt do her any good. It just made...”

“The reason why women are abandoned has always been a puzzle to me, until I started realizing that it goes back to a hidden factor that they, themselves hide, and that's called irresponsibility. Fem...”

“Violent men, and men in authority over violent men, and the broader public that authorises those men, are not yet shamed by the harm of coercive control over women ... Maybe we can rest some hope o...”

“My father was one of those men who sit in a room and you can feel it: the simmer, the sense of some unpredictable force that might, at any moment, break loose, and do something terrible. [Burnside,...”

“We all know the protocol. But more powerful than our protocol is our grooming to believe in something more.”

“Marginalised and abused children are often overlooked even today, and risk becoming marginalised and abused adults who may never receive acknowledgment or respect for the immense physical and emoti...”