“The good news is, this wouldn't be the first time someone's crawled,tooth and nail, out of hell.”— Iain Thomas, amazon.ca
“Every time it rains it stops raining. Every time you hurt, you heal. After darkness, there is always light and you get reminded of this every morning but you still choose to believe that the night will last forever. Nothing lasts forever. Not the good or the bad.”— Iain Thomas, amazon.ca
“This is not a story of another drunk college hookup with poor decision making. Assault is not an accident.”— Anonymous, buzzfeed.com
“To girls everywhere, I am with you. On nights when you feel alone, I am with you. When people doubt you or dismiss you, I am with you. I fought everyday for you. So never stop fighting, I believe you. As the author Anne Lamott once wrote, “Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for…”— Anonymous, buzzfeed.com
“It is deeply offensive that he would try and dilute rape with a suggestion of 'promiscuity'. By definition rape is not the absence of promiscuity, rape is the absence of consent, and it perturbs me deeply that he can’t even see that distinction.”— Anonymous, buzzfeed.com
“Let me rephrase for you, I want to show people that one night of drinking can ruin two lives. You and me. You are the cause, I am the effect. You have dragged me through this hell with you, dipped me back into that night again and again. You knocked down both our towers, I collapsed at the same time…”— Anonymous, buzzfeed.com
“Sometimes you want things to change so badly, you can’t even stand to be in the same room with the way things actually are.”— Ali Benjamin, amazon.com
“At times I hardly can believe in you. Except this ache, this longing in my gut, this emptiness which theorizes you because if there is emptiness this deep,there must be fullness somewhere.”— Erica Jong, amazon.com
“It’s just how it is sometimes. Things hurt, and they hurt for a long time. You have to fight back, or it wins.”— Robin Benway, amazon.com
“Sometimes, the most healing thing we can do is remind ourselves over and over and over, 'Other people feel this way.'”— Andrea Gibson, youtube.com
“However good we are, however correctly we seek to lead our lives, tragedies do occur. We can blame others, look for justification, imagine how our lives would have been different without them. But none of that matters: they have happened, and that is that. From this point on, it is necessary that we…”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“Tragedy depends on the way you see it. If you chose to be a victim of the world, anything which happens to you will feed that dark side of your soul, where you consider yourself wronged, suffering, guilty and deserving punishment. If you choose to be an adventurer, the changes – even the inevitable…”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“You were in paradise, but you didn't recognize it. It's the same with most people in this world; they seek suffering in the most joyous of places because they think they are unworthy of happiness.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“A woman is often a wonderful thing. And you are. But in you, as in all of them, is the indifference of Carmen, the joy in cruelty of Cleopatra, the tyrannical marble-heartedness of Katherine De Medici, and the cold glitter of all the passionless despots of men’s warm souls since sex first originated…”— James Thurber, amazon.com
“Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.”— Paulo Coelho, goodreads.com