12 Quotes by Amy Hatvany

There are some wounds unreachable by words, some sins immune to apology.

The girl I’d been just an hour ago was gone; she’d been obliterated. I had no idea who I was, now.

I felt numb, I felt empty. I was a shell, an abandoned chrysalis, a tomb lying in wait for the dead

I want to rewind the clock, take back the night when the world shattered. I want to erase everything that went wrong.

No, I thought. No way. I love her too much. I would never do that. And then again, those two words, her voice, exploding inside my head: “Tyler, wait!

Maybe he was too drunk to hear me when I told him to stop. Maybe I didn’t say it loudly enough. Maybe I didn’t say it enough times.

being a good mother does not mean being perfect every single moment. we screw up. we get mad, we drink too much, eat too much, yell too much. a good mother learns from her mistakes and does what she can to not let them happen over and over.

Holding on to resentments is like drinking poison and hoping the other person will die.

Our society always seems to blame the victim not the perpetrator, for a sexual crime. It says a woman shouldn’t dress provocatively or drink alcohol or have any kind of flirtation or interaction with a man because that means she is asking for him to do whatever he wants to do to her, even after she tells him no.