Quotes
Below are some quotes our team has compiled that we hope may serve as an aid on your journey either as a survivor or as an ally.
“Here’s what I want you to know: this really is as bad as you think. No matter what anyone else says, this sucks. What has happened cannot be made right. What is lost cannot be restored. There is no beauty here, inside this central fact. Acknowledgment is everything. You’re in pain. It can’t be made better. The reality of grief is far different from what others see from the outside. There is pain in this world you can’t be cheered out of. Some things cannot be fixed. They can only be carried.”
— That’s OK that you’re not OK by Megan Devine
“We cannot stop what we will not look at.”
— Anonymous
“I’ve never met a rape survivor who didn’t blame themselves, to some extent. 'I drank too much.' 'I wore the wrong clothes.' 'I led him on.' But drinking with someone is not consent. Flirting is not consent. Fancying someone is not consent. Only consent is consent, and it can be withdrawn at any time. You have done nothing wrong.”
— The Girl Before: Season 1, Episode 4
“Consensual sex is just sex. To say that implies that there is such a thing as 'non-consensual sex,' which there isn't. That's rape. That's what it needs to be called. There is only sex or rape. Do not teach people that rape is just another type of sex. They are two very separate events. You wouldn't say 'breathing swimming' and 'non-breathing swimming.' You say swimming and drowning."
— Anonymous