No blame, no hate - why no communication?

all my bounce has gone flat, like soda with the top left off.

Life had sure been simpler when I hadn't dated.

Are you a prude?' He seemed genuinely curious. 'No!' But after a second, I said, 'But may be compared to you, yes! I like my privacy. I get to decide who sees me naked. Do you get my point?' 'Yes. Objectively speaking, you have beautiful points.' I thought the top of my head would pop off... (Sookie Stackhouse & Claude, Dead in the Family)

There’s no way you can kill someone and get to the other side of the experience unchanged.

I could tell Hugo was convinced that he would get to walk back up these stairs: after all, he was a civilized person. These were all civilized people. Hugo really couldn't imagine that anything irreparable could happen to him, because he was a middle-class white American with a college education, as were all the people on the stairs with us. I had no such conviction. I was not a wholly civilized person.

I am a woman, hear me roar," I said. Gosh, what prompted that?" Amelia asked, and I jumped