Dreaming Quote by Lisa Factora-Borchers

“Throughout the archives, repeatedly they face the classic insinuation against victims of sexual assault. The”

— Gaiutra Bahadur

“What is history if not one endless assault on love?”

— Casper Silk

“In times of violence, there is always that first acquaintance or intimate of ours, who, when they are touched, makes what had seemed like…

— Mohsin Hamid

“Book: [to Mal] If you take sexual advantage of her, you're going to burn in a very special level of hell. A level they…

— Josh Whedon

“Abuse ambushed my life, I could not love myself truly and could never have a healthy relationship, they were either abused or completely impaired.”

— Patricia Dsouza

“I can’t rely upon sex and violence to sell my books”

— Libi Astaire

“Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths, our fears,…

— Roberto Bolano

“For it’s particularly when women speak up about sexual crimes that their right and capacity to speak come under attack. It seems almost reflexive…

— Rebecca Solnit

“Sleeping with books is a vicious affair, I do not believe it will ever stop.”

— R. YS Perez

“A book is as private and consensual as sex.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“We have far more than eighty-seven thousand rapes in this country every year, but each of them is invariably portrayed as an isolated incident.”

— Rebecca Solnit

“I spent the rest of my day in someone else's story. The rare moments that I put the book down, my own pain returned…

— Amy Plum