Don’t worry about me. I am the phoenix. I rise from the ashes.[to Angela]
Call me a fool, but in the canon of epic romances, bouncing back from a gunpoint confessional is practically a genre staple.
Before the war, people joked about cockroaches surviving a nuclear blast. But they didn’t merely survive. They improved.
I was traumatized, Summer. Okay, your generation wouldn’t get that.[Beth Smith]B**ch, my generation gets traumatized for breakfast.[Summer Smith]
Adversity makes you stronger in ways comfort never could. Prejudice, injustice, fear? Those aren’t obstacles. They’re the crucible that forges your greatest self.
A forgotten woman is the most dangerous woman of all. Because a forgotten woman has nothing left to lose.
