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Rachel Harrison Biography

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Source: Black Sheep

“I prodded at my emotions with a long stick as if they were something dead in the woods. I interrogated myself. Are you sad? Are you angry? Are you disappointed? Heartbroken?”

Emotion Sadness Heartbreak Anger

Author:Rachel Harrison

“The emotion was, in retrospect, a warning.”

Emotion Sadness Emotions Complicated Warning

Author:Rachel Harrison

“They're so excited for one day in a pretty dress... someone should really tell them. They can wear a retty dress whenever they want... Women are out there tethering themselves to mediocre men just so they can wear a ball gown. It's a shame.”

Women Feminism Fashion Dresses Weddings

Book:Cackle

Source: Cackle

“Because I like to meet other strange creatures. Good to know I'm not alone.”

Loneliness Strange Alone Odd Peculiar Bad Dolls

Author:Rachel Harrison

“But friendships are mercurial. They're shape-shifters. I've learned to allow them to fluctuate and take new forms. I love my friends; that's all that matters.”

Change Friendship Growing Up Growing Apart Relationship Dynamics

Book:The Return

Source: The Return

“I wasn't myself. I'm not myself. Or maybe... maybe I'm more myself than I've ever been.”

Growth Feminism Empowerment

Book:Cackle

Source: Cackle

“Men are never selfish. They’re smart. Women are always selfish. You want to be single? Selfish. You’re a wife and mother and do anything other than dote on your husband and children? Selfish. I want you and your sisters to learn to take that word as a compliment. Anyone who says that to you is trying to discourage you from doing what you want. That’s how you know you’re doing something right.”

Feminism Identity Empowerment Independence Self Determination Defiance Gender Roles Social Commentary Double Standards Critique Of Society

Book:Play Nice

Source: Play Nice

“It's a nice thing to cook for yourself.”

Inspiration Independence Women Empowerment Girl Power Female Empowerment Cackle

Book:Cackle

Source: Cackle

“You know," she says, still staring out the window, "I'm not afraid to date. I choose not to." "I know. I'm sorry." "Not everything is about my leg. Does it factor in? Yeah, in ways you and Mae and Jules will never understand, and that's fine. But it's not the reason," she says. Believe it or not, I'm good on my own." "I believe it." "If I come home to dishes in the sink, they're my dishes. I watch TV, it's whatever I want. I go wherever I want, do whatever I want. I've got a lot going on. I'm not some lonely sad sack out there. I've got a good life.”

Relationships Independence Single Singlism

Author:Rachel Harrison

“You're so beautiful," he says as he kisses along my clavicle, one hand loose around my neck and the other moving up my thigh. "You're so beautiful." But I need him to love me ugly.”

Love Beautiful Romance Sex Ugly Sexuality

Author:Rachel Harrison

“Maybe it wasn't about the number; maybe it was about the symbol. Infinity. Maybe because there were infinite questions to ask, maybe because wonder was limitless. There were so many variables so many unknowns.”

Answers Wonder Curiosity Questions Bad Dolls Magic Eight Ball

Author:Rachel Harrison

“Maybe independence is just the flag we wave to distract from the pain of being alone.”

Being Alone Aloneness Independence Quotes Cackle

Book:Cackle

Source: Cackle

“I hoped wherever she was, she was having a shitty time, had an itch in a place she couldn't scratch.”

Horror Emotions Vindictiveness

Book:Black Sheep

Source: Black Sheep

“He fears because he is small. I will not meet him there. I will not shrink down to his size, or anyone else's, for their comfort, for their appeasement.”

Feminism Self Love Self Worth Love Yourself Female Empowerment Toxic Relationship Know Your Worth Stand Tall

Book:Cackle

Source: Cackle

“It must be exhausting to be in your head," Sam told me once. I think what he must have meant was it was exhausting for him to hear about it. I exhausted him.”

Low Self Esteem Self Doubt Neurodivergent Toxic Relationship Low Self Image

Book:Cackle

Source: Cackle

“If I come home to dishes in the sink, they're my dishes. I watch TV, it's whatever I want. I go wherever I want, do whatever I want. I've got a lot going on. I'm not some sad lonely sad sack out there. I've got a good life.”

Freedom Love Yourself On Your Own Singledom

Book:The Return

Source: The Return

“Believe it or not, I'm good on my own." "I believe it." "If I come home to dishes in the sink, they're my dishes. I watch TV, it's whatever I want. I go wherever I want, do whatever I want. I've got a lot going on. I'm not some sad lonely sad sack out there. I've got a good life.”

Relationships Being Single Love Yourself First Singledom Choosing To Be Alone Know Yourself First

Book:The Return

Source: The Return

“There are many reasons why bad things happen to young women, and at the same time, no reason at all.”

Sexism Misogyny Rape Culture Missing Girls

Book:The Return

Source: The Return

“Adelynn raises her sword. ‘Fight,’ she says. ‘Suffer. Stand, until you cannot.”

Perseverance Warhammer 40000 Imperium Warhammer40k Adepta Sororitas Sisters Of Battle The Dark Times

Book:Mark of Faith

Source: Mark of Faith

“Fate comes for you, no matter where you go.”

The Black Library On Fate

Book:Honourbound

Source: Honourbound

“Heard from whom? I always hated this small-town-grapevine nonsense. That's something I love about the city. The anonymity. No one knows who you are, and no one gives a shit about your business. It's a beautiful thing.”

Gossip Small Town City Anonymous Rural Grapevine

Author:Rachel Harrison

“My future is my own.”

Inspirational Quotes Life Lessons Life Quotes Future Women Empowerment Female Empowerment Cackle Owning Life

Book:Cackle

Source: Cackle

“My problems aren't invalid. Not to me. Just because they aren't life altering, life-threatening, doesn't mean they don't make me feel bad. I wake up with them every morning, carry them around all day like a lead backpack, and I fall asleep with them at night. They're real, and they're mine. I know I'm lucky. I know that. But it doesn't change how I feel.”

Privilege Dysfunction Oppression Olympics

Book:The Return

Source: The Return

“You cannot make the sun rise before it is ready to, no matter how fearsome you may be.”

Time Inquisition Warhammer 40k Warhammer 40000 Imperium Adepta Sororitas

Book:Mark of Faith

Source: Mark of Faith

“The rage wraps itself around me like vines, like moss swallowing a rock. It's a natural state. It's good. It's symbiotic.”

Natural Hurt Anger Rage Symbiotic

Author:Rachel Harrison

“You can't erase your past when there are pieces of it scattered inside other people.”

Friendship

Book:The Return

Source: The Return

“I don't even remember who brought it up. It might have been Julie. Sometimes when we're all together, I get confused about who is who. Where one of us stops and the others start. We overlap, bleed together. I love it.”

Friendship

Book:The Return

Source: The Return

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