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1 " Her faced,bathed in blood. Her smile,crazed.The sounds she makesas she escapes.There is nothing else in this worldlike realizingyou're going to liveand not being sureyou can. "
― Claire C. Holland , I Am Not Your Final Girl
2 " She is so tired of waiting —aren’t you?—for the world to become good and tolerable and kind. "
3 " There is nothing else in this world like realizing you’re going to live and not being sure you can. "
4 " This time I will cut it out, excise that fragile and anemic part of me, let it ooze heavy as iron from me, smother it in dirt. I have not learned how to be obedient, only to hurt myself as much as you. "
5 " I’d rather arm myself in blood than be a pretty statue to stare at. "
6 " And so she thrashes, smashes her head against the tunnel walls like a dervish, a devil woman demented and godlike, with her too-many arms waving, a container for grief and this other thing she cannot name. A broken discontent, willing itself to life. "
7 " If I could float up above my own tired bones, change my mother’s-hands into talons, rip out the root of this unrest, would I? "
8 " Hands can make cradles around bodies or throats. "
9 " I have known monsters and I have known men. "
10 " I can’t exist in a way that comforts you. "
11 " but it will mean nothing to a man who says I like a girl with spirit when what he means is I like a girl that can break. "
12 " Tired of hearing the same stories, over and over again, of women being harmed and treated like playthings by men with just enough power to take advantage. "
