Amy Reed

"Three misfit girls come together to avenge the rape of a girl none of them knew and in the process start a movement that transforms the lives of everyone around them"--

The Nowhere Girls

How alone a person must feel to cry out to someone they can't even see.

No matter what you do, people will find a way to put you in a box.

Sometimes it's the freaks of nature who end up being the strongest.

What's worse? Lying about who you are, or not knowing you are at all?

"The thing is," Rosina says, "people don't want to hear something that'll make their lives more difficult, even if it's the truth. People hate having to change the way they see things. So instead of admitting the world is ugly, they shit on the messenger for telling them about it."

But Erin has empathy, lots of it, so much it hurts sometimes, so much that other people’s pain turns into her own pain and makes her completely incapable of doing anything useful for anyone.

How nice it would be to be that free, that unencumbered by the whims and weaknesses of other people.

Mom always reminds her how lucky she is to be so bright; few Aspies are so exceptional, so special. As if they need to be. As if that's the only way to be forgiven for the rest of what they are. 

There is so much room inside her, so much space to fill. So much emptiness. Even here, she feels it. Even here, where God is supposed to make her whole.

The world is a sick place. It is a place where hurting people is too easy, and where helping them is too hard. 

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