“The body is not the only target of rape. Violence does not always take a visible form, and not all wounds gush blood.”

“Violence does not always take visible form, and not all wounds gush blood”

“Violence does not always take physical form, and not all wounds gush blood.”

“Listen up—there’s no war that will end all wars,’ Crow tells me. ‘War breeds war. Lapping up the blood shed by violence, feeding on wounded flesh. War is a perfect, self-contained being. You need to know that.”

“No matter what form the relationship might take, he was the only person she could picture sharing her life with.”

“If there are this many visible parts of my body that are worse than normal people's, then if I start considering other aspects — personality, brains, athleticism, things of this sort — the list will be endless.”

“You’re optimistic one moment, only to be racked the next by the certainty that it will all fall to pieces. And in the end it does.”