Molly

“We were the masters of nature, the masters of the world. We had transcended everything—death, fatigue, our natural needs. We were stronger than cold and hunger, stronger than the guns and the desire to die, doomed and rootless, nothing but numbers, we were the only men on earth.”
― Elie Wiesel, Night

“The SanctuCare women went over and welcomed them and said, “You’re here now, it’s all right,” and the Gilead women started to cry. At the time I thought, Why cry, you should be happy, you got out. But after all that’s happened to me since that day, I understand why. You hold it in, whatever it is, until you can make it through the worst part. Then, once you’re safe, you can cry all the tears you couldn’t waste time crying before.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

“I guess she doesn’t remember me,” I said dolefully. “She doesn’t give a fuck.” “Nobody is any authority on the fucks other people give,”
― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

“Reaching a section of our story that felt uncomfortable—our first intimacy—I unconsciously drifted over to Facebook.”
― Aspen Matis, Your Blue Is Not My Blue: A Missing Person Memoir