“Trauma lives in the sea of my body, awash in the waters of forgetting.”— Natasha Trethewey, amazon.com
“On February 8, 2009, at 12:30am, Chris Brown beat Rihanna’s face into a landscape of craters and bruises. This is the architecture of violence. Later, Chris Brown described their relationship as being similar to Romeo and Juliet’s. In 2013, David O. Russell groped his niece’s breasts and claimed she…”— Meggie Royer, writingsforwinter.tumblr.com