Girl in the woods Quotes

“I'd crossed a border—Speaking openly, exposing the weak girl I'd been, I was no longer her.”

“It felt amazing to make visible my boundaries.The rumors dissipated, then changed. Eventually I turned down enough men that I became the girl who turned down men.”

“After twelve years of trying, I just decided to stop missing.”

“As if violence could make light. Maybe violence could make light.”

“I had once again proven that again alone, I was again enough.”

“If I could mark clearly, convincingly and consistently what was good for me and also what was bad—if I could say yes and also no, as if it were the law—it would become my law.”

“Because I feared I couldn't walk to Newton Centre without her, I needed to hike through desert, snow and woods alone.Childhood is a wilderness.”

“The bravest thing I ever did was leave there. The next bravest thing I did was come back, to make myself heard.”

“A red leaf danced from a branch like a dropping flame, down into the calm blue lake. A gust had broken it free. There was a cold bite in the wind. It was now deep autumn in the mountains.”

“Helplessness didn't have to be my identity, I wasn't condemned to it. I was willing - able - to change. Our enmeshment had been enabled by my belief that I needed [my mom] to help me, to take care of things for me - and to save me - but, back in the home where I'd learned this helplessness, I found I no longer felt that I was trapped in it.”