

“You've learned a new rule and it's simple: don't put yourself in situations you'd like to run away from.”
― Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
― Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"

“It's not brave to do something that doesn't scare you.”
― Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
― Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"

“When someone shows you how little you mean to them and you keep coming back for more, before you know it you start to mean less to yourself. You are not made up of compartments! You are one whole person! What gets said to you gets said to all of you, ditto what gets done. Being treated like shit is not an amusing game or a transgressive intellectual experiment. It’s something you accept, condone, and learn to believe you deserve. This is so simple. But I tried so hard to make it complicated.”
― Not That Kind of Girl: A young woman tells you what she's "learned"
― Not That Kind of Girl: A young woman tells you what she's "learned"

“And all we have, in the end, are the choices we make.”
― Disobedience
― Disobedience

“In the solitude, I felt the liberty you speak of. But I also felt your absence.”
― Portrait of a Lady on Fire
― Portrait of a Lady on Fire

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