Assault Survival Quotes

“a quick turn around a corner
and my planet becomes sand
on the shore of a dying Universe”
― S. Kelley Harrell, The Journey of Healing: Wisdom From Survivors of Sexual Abuse, A Literary Anthology

“I seized his face with both hands and crushed his mouth to mine, suddenly needing to remind myself where I was, who I was with, that this was all a fucking choice. My choice”
― Ashlyn Drewek, The Vengeance of Roan Sinclair

“Melinda's trick is looking hard in the mirror,
Absolving herself and cracking open doors to the next place.

But the girl at that school, so haunted,
smashed all the reflections
boarded up the windows and
bolted the doors,
forever stuck at 15 years old
judged to serve a life sentence for what they did.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Shout