"There will always be the older white woman in Walmart who stared at us with sheer disgust, or the African-American mother who looked at us and just shook her head.”
"The more you stew about a possible reason for your pain, the angrier you become. You try desperately to make sense of a situation that won’t ever make sense. You reach for answers but none come."
"When I touch my wife, nearly 13 years after her rape, she can be triggered into an immediate fight or flight response...her body remembers what her mind can’t."
