109 Quotes by Amy Reed

This is what it is to be caught, to be powerless and frozen, to be turned into nothing. This is when your own body, your own voice, becomes your enemy, when it won’t even listen to you because it’s his now, because he’s stolen it, because he controls it with your own fear.

I was trying to be brave. I was trying to let people in. I was trying. I am who I am today because of my messes. Because I’ve survived them. Because I’ve written about them. Because I’ve learned from them, because I keep searching for new tools to clean them up, because I keep trying to heal.

She has never questioned her entitlement to this. She has never questioned the power of her body. She has never questioned her right to pleasure.

I feel myself floating without the weight of him on my body.

And what they’re doing could be called kissing but it’s more like sword fighting with tongues.

Girls living in fear for no reason except the fact that they’re girls.

There is nothing lonelier than fear.

Home of so many girls. Home of so many almost-women, waiting for their skin to fit.

They are ghosts of people I never knew, which the rain will wash away.