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(108,898 total)“He admitted to kissing other girls at that party, one of whom was my own sister who pushed him away. He admitted to wanting to hook up with someone. I was the wounded antelope of the herd, completely alone and vulnerable, physically unable to fend for myself, and he chose me. Sometimes I think, if I…”
— Anonymous, Brock Turner sexual assault case: Stanford victim's letter to attacker, judge
“At the bottom of the article, after I learned about the graphic details of my own sexual assault, the article listed his swimming times. She was found breathing, unresponsive with her underwear six inches away from her bare stomach curled in fetal position. By the way, he’s really good at swimming.…”
— Anonymous, Brock Turner sexual assault case: Stanford victim's letter to attacker, judge
“One day, I was at work, scrolling through the news on my phone, and came across an article. In it, I read and learned for the first time about how I was found unconscious, with my hair disheveled, long necklace wrapped around my neck, bra pulled out of my dress, dress pulled off over my shoulders an…”
— Anonymous, Brock Turner sexual assault case: Stanford victim's letter to attacker, judge
“My boyfriend did not know what happened, but called that day and said, ‘I was really worried about you last night, you scared me, did you make it home okay?’ I was horrified. That’s when I learned I had called him that night in my blackout, left an incomprehensible voicemail, that we had also spoken…”
— Anonymous, Brock Turner sexual assault case: Stanford victim's letter to attacker, judge
“On that morning, all that I was told was that I had been found behind a dumpster, potentially penetrated by a stranger, and that I should get retested for HIV because results don’t always show up immediately. But for now, I should go home and get back to my normal life. Imagine stepping back into th…”
— Anonymous, Brock Turner sexual assault case: Stanford victim's letter to attacker, judge
“The three of us worked to comb the pine needles out of my hair, six hands to fill one paper bag. To calm me down, they said it’s just the flora and fauna, flora and fauna. I had multiple swabs inserted into my vagina and anus, needles for shots, pills, had a nikon pointed right into my spread legs.…”
— Anonymous, Brock Turner sexual assault case: Stanford victim's letter to attacker, judge
“When I was finally allowed to use the restroom, I pulled down the hospital pants they had given me, went to pull down my underwear, and felt nothing. I still remember the feeling of my hands touching my skin and grabbing nothing. I looked down and there was nothing. The thin piece of fabric, the onl…”
— Anonymous, Brock Turner sexual assault case: Stanford victim's letter to attacker, judge
“Campus drinking culture. That’s what we’re speaking out against? You think that’s what I’ve spent the past year fighting for? Not awareness about campus sexual assault, or rape, or learning to recognize consent. Campus drinking culture. Down with Jack Daniels. Down with Skyy Vodka. If you want talk…”
— Anonymous, Here's The Powerful Letter The Stanford Victim Read To Her Attacker
“You see all these companies that seem to be highly valued until they actually have to be bought by someone and then the world looks very, very different. They are looking at valuations that are so high that it turns out it could be a curse for some of these companies.”
— Cyriac Roeding, Account hacks are the least of Twitter’s worries, tech CEO says
“Go, even though you love him. Go, even though he is kind and faithful and dear to you. Go, even though he's your best friend and you're his. Go, even though you can't imagine your life without him. Go, even though he adores you and your leaving will devastate him. Go, even though your friends will b…”
— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
“You don't have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your success. You don't have to explain what your plan to do with your life. You don't have to justify your education by demonstrating its financial rewards. You don't have to maintain an impeccable credit sco…”
— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
“You don’t have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt with. You have an obligation to play the hell out of the ones you’re holding and my dear one, you and I have been granted a mighty generous one.”
— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
“Don’t do what you know on a gut level to be the wrong thing to do. Don’t stay when you know you should go or go when you know you should stay. Don’t fight when you should hold steady or hold steady when you should fight. Don’t focus on the short-term fun instead of the long-term fall out. Don’t surr…”
— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
“It had to do with how it felt to be in the wild. With what it was like to walk for miles with no reason other than to witness the accumulation of trees and meadows, mountains and deserts, streams and rocks, rivers and grasses, sunrises and sunsets. The experience was powerful and fundamental. It see…”
— Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail