T.E. Carter QUOTES

3 " The thing about my diary is that I lied in it. I obscured the truth. I never told even the empty space around me the whole story. I was afraid someone would find it, read it, know me. I wanted them to know a different girl. A better one. "

― T.E. Carter , I Stop Somewhere

4 " I didn't deserve this. Even the most confused and lost girl, even the most screwed up of us all, doesn't deserve this. Death isn't the consequence for making a mistake; it's the punishment we force on girls because they couldn't be good. Only girls have to die for wanting. "

― T.E. Carter , I Stop Somewhere

5 " People should see what goes on. What it really feels like. Because once a trial starts and everyone's watching, both men will stand resolved and stoic. But if they could see this, if they could see what this kind of darkness does to a person, maybe they'd feel it, too. Maybe they wouldn't make excuses anymore. Maybe they wouldn't shrug it off, because, you know, these things happen. "

― T.E. Carter , I Stop Somewhere

6 " Beth will come back and coach Gretchen and Kailey on how to say the right things. I don't know if anyone is coaching the boys, but it seems unfair. Why do Gretchen and Kailey have to learn how to be the right kind of victims? "

― T.E. Carter , I Stop Somewhere

7 " Misconduct. I wish they'd call it for what it is. Misconduct sounds like something you do to earn yourself a time-out as a toddler. "

― T.E. Carter , I Stop Somewhere

8 " They condemn our town. Separate it from their own, where the same secrets pulse. "

― T.E. Carter , I Stop Somewhere

9 " Rape.
It brings with it connotations, assumptions, a whole steamer trunk full of other people's ideas of it, because other people only know it as a word. A concept that's discussed, argued, demonized. If you actually know what it is, if you live it and experience it and know what it is beyond a word, you have to carry that word with you. You're now 'rape victim', 'rape survivor'. Your identity is attached permanently to a word you hate. "

― T.E. Carter

10 " People don't debate what defines murder. Politicians don't argue the body's ability to fight off being killed. There's no talk of "murder culture." No one says that you asked for murder. What you wear doesn't excuse being killed. "

― T.E. Carter , I Stop Somewhere

11 " This isn’t a story of great romance or of true love. It’s simply a story of being lonely and how comforting it is to be called beautiful. "

― T.E. Carter , I Stop Somewhere

12 " Some people get closure; others just go on living because it’s the only option. "

― T.E. Carter , I Stop Somewhere

13 " It takes a lot of things to make a girl, but breaking her? It only takes a few pretty words and a crooked smile. "

― T.E. Carter , I Stop Somewhere

14 " Nobody ever wants to be inconvenienced by all the things that happen to girls. "

― T.E. Carter , I Stop Somewhere

15 " Girls disappear. Girls are brought to secret places to be used and nothing is done, because it's how things are. Because they're only girls. "

― T.E. Carter , I Stop Somewhere

16 " In the quiet between all the worry and all the things we fill our minds with, the world goes on. "

― T.E. Carter , I Stop Somewhere

17 " Rape.
It brings with it connotations, assumptions, a whole steamer trunk full of other people's ideas of it, because other people only know it as a word. A concept that's discussed, argued, demonized. If you actually know what it is, if you live and experience it and know what it is beyond a word, you have to carry that word with you. You're now "rape victim", "rape survivor." Your identity is attached permanently to a word you hate.
I'm also a murder victim, but murder carries with it what it is. People don't debate what defines murder. Politicians don't argue the body's ability to fight off being killed. There's no talk of a "murder culture." No one says that you asked for murder. What you wear doesn't excuse being killed. "

― T.E. Carter , I Stop Somewhere

18 " People want this to be an anomaly.... we can handle monsters, we can't handle our neighbors doing these things. we can't believe these are the same people we see at Christmas parties, and basketball games. "

― T.E. Carter

19 " That’s part of what makes a girl, I think. That inherent need to be pretty. "

― T.E. Carter , I Stop Somewhere

20 " Perhaps the worst dangers in our lives are the ones we invite in. "

― T.E. Carter , I Stop Somewhere

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