Una
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Leeds, The United Kingdom
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“Blaming the victim is an act of refuge and self-deception. It allows the blamer to sit in judgment, imagining some mystical justice that means bad things happen only to bad people, thus ensuring their own safety.”
― Becoming Unbecoming
― Becoming Unbecoming
“You're a survivor," they tell me. I understand it's meant kindly -- to be empowering -- but surviving has been -- what a waste of my valuable time surviving has been! Hours, days, years, decades! So much time struggling. Precious energy spent, managing the damage so that I can live my life. In a different landscape I might have put that time and energy to better use. ... I don't want to seem ungrateful, I'm glad to be alive, to have a life; but I wonder who I would have been, had I not been interrupted so rudely?”
― Becoming Unbecoming
― Becoming Unbecoming
“But you know, there is nothing to be afraid of in the dark... That doesn't also exist in the light.”
― Becoming Unbecoming
― Becoming Unbecoming
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