“I don't remember, not exactly. So many of my memories from back then are shadowy, incomplete. I need him to fill in the gaps, though sometimes the girl he describes sounds like a stranger.” AbuseDisassociation Book:My Dark Vanessa Source: My Dark Vanessa
“At the end of class, he stops me on my way out the door and hands me my essay on Lavinia from Titus Andronicus. I focused on her torn-out tongue and torn-off hands, her subsequent silence, the failure of language in the face of rape.” TraumaRapeRape CultureDisassociation Book:My Dark Vanessa Source: My Dark Vanessa