“At the time, age eighteen, having been brought up in a hair-trigger society where the ground rules were – if no physically violent touch was being laid upon you, and no outright verbal insults were being levelled at you, and no taunting looks in the vicinity either, then nothing was happening, so how could you be under attack from something that wasn’t there? At eighteen I had no proper understanding of the ways that constituted encroachment.”
Tag: women's prize for fiction
Girl, Woman, Other
“Be a person with knowledge, not just opinions.”
Red At The Bone
“Guess that's where the tears came from, knowing that there's so much in this great big world that you don't have a single ounce of control over."
The Woman Next Door
"Hating, after all, was a drier form of drowning."
Normal People
“You learn nothing very profound about yourself simply by being bullied; but by bullying someone else you learn something you can never forget.”
My Sister, The Serial Killer
“Ayoola summons me with these words—Korede, I killed him.”
