#Epsteinfiles
#survivors
#Epsteinfiles
#survivors
The sun was as bright as fireworks and the sky was so clear you could look right through it - like looking through a blue window.
Owls in the Family; Farley Mowat.
#Booksky
The sun was as bright as fireworks and the sky was so clear you could look right through it - like looking through a blue window.
Owls in the Family; Farley Mowat.
#Booksky
I hope for a world in which predators are punished, not protected; victims are treated with compassion, not shamed; and powerful people face the same consequences as anyone else.
Nobody’s Girl; Virginia Roberts Giuffre.
#booksky
I hope for a world in which predators are punished, not protected; victims are treated with compassion, not shamed; and powerful people face the same consequences as anyone else.
Nobody’s Girl; Virginia Roberts Giuffre.
#booksky
#endoftheworld
#retirement
#endoftheworld
#retirement
Call them silly rituals all you want, I say, but we must preserve happy memories because there will be times ahead when we will need them.
Nobody’s Girl; Virginia Roberts Giuffre.
#booksky
Call them silly rituals all you want, I say, but we must preserve happy memories because there will be times ahead when we will need them.
Nobody’s Girl; Virginia Roberts Giuffre.
#booksky
It was about how being so fundamentally betrayed often made a person feel deserving of betrayal.
Nobody’s Girl; Virginia Roberts Giuffre.
#booksky
It was about how being so fundamentally betrayed often made a person feel deserving of betrayal.
Nobody’s Girl; Virginia Roberts Giuffre.
#booksky
Well, now that I was surrounded by love, all that ugliness had decided it had been buried long enough.
Nobody’s Girl; Virginia Roberts Giuffre.
#booksky
Well, now that I was surrounded by love, all that ugliness had decided it had been buried long enough.
Nobody’s Girl; Virginia Roberts Giuffre.
#booksky
I didn't have the slightest idea how an adult version of me should look.
Nobody’s Girl; Virginia Roberts Giuffre.
#booksky
I didn't have the slightest idea how an adult version of me should look.
Nobody’s Girl; Virginia Roberts Giuffre.
#booksky
It is truly impossible to say how many men there were, in part because I didn't keep count, and in part because my interactions with many of them were so similar.
Nobody’s Girl; Virginia Roberts Giuffre.
#booksky
It is truly impossible to say how many men there were, in part because I didn't keep count, and in part because my interactions with many of them were so similar.
Nobody’s Girl; Virginia Roberts Giuffre.
#booksky
And everything that had happened to me in Epstein's world had only confirmed that certain privileged men existed in a liminal space outside the law, no matter how dastardly their behavior.
Nobody’s Girl; Virginia Roberts Giuffre.
#booksky
And everything that had happened to me in Epstein's world had only confirmed that certain privileged men existed in a liminal space outside the law, no matter how dastardly their behavior.
Nobody’s Girl; Virginia Roberts Giuffre.
#booksky
Frequently, Epstein told me something I needed to hear: that I was smart and full of potential.
Nobody’s Girl; Virginia Roberts Giuffre.
#booksky
Frequently, Epstein told me something I needed to hear: that I was smart and full of potential.
Nobody’s Girl; Virginia Roberts Giuffre.
#booksky
Pathetically, I was trading on the only part of me that anyone seemed to care about—my body—while my soul remained on the sidelines, ignored.
Nobody’s Girl; Virginia Roberts Giuffre.
#booksky
Pathetically, I was trading on the only part of me that anyone seemed to care about—my body—while my soul remained on the sidelines, ignored.
Nobody’s Girl; Virginia Roberts Giuffre.
#booksky
Every night, as I lay in my bed, dreading the now-familiar creak of the door, I tried to remember a time when I'd been more than nothing.
Nobody’s Girl; Virginia Roberts Giuffre.
#booksky
Every night, as I lay in my bed, dreading the now-familiar creak of the door, I tried to remember a time when I'd been more than nothing.
Nobody’s Girl; Virginia Roberts Giuffre.
#booksky
The story is too connected to be mistaken for a dream, and I have no motive for falsehood.
Frankenstein; Mary Shelley.
#booksky
The story is too connected to be mistaken for a dream, and I have no motive for falsehood.
Frankenstein; Mary Shelley.
#booksky
Alas, what freedom? such as the peasant enjoys when his family have been massacred before his eyes, his cottage burnt, his lands laid waste, and he is turned adrift, homeless, penniless, and alone, but free.
Frankenstein; Mary Shelley.
Alas, what freedom? such as the peasant enjoys when his family have been massacred before his eyes, his cottage burnt, his lands laid waste, and he is turned adrift, homeless, penniless, and alone, but free.
Frankenstein; Mary Shelley.
Who could be interested in the fate of a murderer, but the hangman who would gain his fee?
Frankenstein; Mary Shelley.
Who could be interested in the fate of a murderer, but the hangman who would gain his fee?
Frankenstein; Mary Shelley.
Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous and magnificent, yet so vicious and base?
Frankenstein; Mary Shelley.
Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous and magnificent, yet so vicious and base?
Frankenstein; Mary Shelley.
If such lovely creatures were miserable, it was less strange that I, an imperfect and solitary being, should be wretched.
Frankenstein; Mary Shelley.
If such lovely creatures were miserable, it was less strange that I, an imperfect and solitary being, should be wretched.
Frankenstein; Mary Shelley.