Because unlike boys, girls turn inward. They hide. They adapt, even if it hurts. Because they are not screaming, people assume they do not suffer.
TW: Rape and sexual assault
Anyone else love books that make you mad because people suck? Big mood for me right now.
The
Sometimes you need to scorch everything to the ground, and start over. After the burning the soil is richer, and new things can grow. People are like that, too. They start over. They find a way.
Oooooh, love a quiet engaging book.
Little Fires Everywhere begins with a
The monster is me and I am the monster.
I loved this so much, the Grishaverse is only getting better.
King of Scars takes place after both the Shadow and Bone trilogy and the Six of Crows duology, with characters from both. King Nikolai bares the scars from
“But boys will be boys, our favorite phrase that excuses so many things, while the only thing we have for the opposite gender is women, said with disdain and punctuated with an eye roll.”
TW for: sexual assault, animal abuse, violence, and murder
The Female of the Species
"If someone asks you how you are, you are meant to say FINE. You are not meant to say that you cried yourself to sleep last night because you hadn't spoken to another person for two consecutive days. FINE is what you say."
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
