Julia

“I am congenitally unable to take much interest in other people,”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“But that is how a tragedy like ours or King Lear breaks your heart—by making you believe that the ending might still be happy, until the very last minute.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“Often father and daughter look down on mother (woman) together. They exchange meaningful glances when she misses a point. They agree that she is not bright as they are, cannot reason as they do. This collusion does not save the daughter from the mother’s fate.”
― Bonnie Burstow, Radical Feminist Therapy: Working in the Context of Violence

“I never asked where he went, worried he wouldn’t ask me to follow.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains