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quinnjuliac's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Bullying, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Gaslighting
Minor: Sexual violence and Suicidal thoughts
mortiffa's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, and Grief
Moderate: Religious bigotry
veepopp's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Gaslighting
Moderate: Body shaming and Fatphobia
Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Lesbophobia
hue's review against another edition
3.75
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Sexual harassment
elyssajoh's review against another edition
4.0
Moderate: Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Sexual violence
shainabriley's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, and Gaslighting
jilianh's review against another edition
5.0
This memoir really grapples with the author's experience in a meaningful way, as well as the varying perceptions of abuse, lesbians, and the point where they meet in the middle of a venn diagram. Too many heavy hitting, impactful quotes to count. These were a few of my favourites:
"You wonder if, at any point in history, some creature scuttled over what would, eons later, be the living room, and cocked its head to the side to listen to the faintest of sounds: yelling, weeping. Ghosts of a future that hadn't happened yet."
"A reminder to remember: just because the sharpness of the sadness has faded does not mean that it was not, once, terrible. It means only that time and space, creatures of infinite girth and tenderness, have stepped between the two of you, and they are keeping you safe as they were once unable to."
"But house idioms and their variants in fact often symbolize the opposite of safety and security. If something is a house of cards it is precarious, easily disrupted. If the writing is on the wall, we can see the end of something long before it arrives. If we do not throw stones in glass houses, it is because the house is constructed of hypocrisy, readily shattered. All expressions of weakness, of the inevitability of failure. "
"In this way, the Dream House was a haunted house. You were the sudden, inadvertent occupant of a place where bad things had happened. And then it occurs to you one day, standing in the living room, that you are this house's ghost: you are the one wandering from room to room with no purpose, gaping at the moving boxes that are never unpacked, never certain what you're supposed to do. After all, you don't need to die to leave a mark of psychic pain. If anyone is living in the Dream House now, he or she might be seeing the echo of you."
"And as the ground gets farther, and farther away you swear to yourself that you are going to tell someone how bad it is, you’re gonna stop pretending like none of these things are happening. By the time the ground is coming towards you again, you are already polishing your story. "
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Sexual violence, and Toxic relationship
cassidyzang's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, and Gaslighting
Moderate: Homophobia
Minor: Physical abuse
angievansprang's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, and Gaslighting
Moderate: Homophobia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence
Minor: Mental illness, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol
hannahnew's review against another edition
4.0
Minor: Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence