Shame is not in the beatings, not in the rape. Shame is in being asked to stand judgment. - Meena Kandasamy

A memoir for me means a person’s life story; if I was going to write my actual life story, I would condense this entire marriage into a footnote.

Sometimes I think that what I do must be either idiotic and naïve or courageous. I don’t know which. If there was no threat of violence, that is what you would do. This threat of violence shouldn’t dictate what you are going to write or hinder you in any manner.

Love is not blind, it just looks in the wrong places.