"I can't even remember the first time I saw a porno. I presume I must have been shocked, frightened even, but after watching another and another and another they sort of blend into nothingness."
- Louise O'Neill
"We teach our girls how not to get raped with a sense of doom, a sense that we are fighting a losing battle. When I was writing this novel, friend after friend came to me telling me of something that h..."
"She catches sight of herself in her video-feed, her face contorted with fury. Wiping spittle from the sides of her mouth, she reaches behind her to grab her lip gloss and reapplies it. “And don’t even..."
"Why, isabel? Why are you doing this to yourself? To your "
"I do the splits perfectly in PE. I lose half a pound in two days. I get the spinach and pig-meat frittata from the lo-carb section for lunch. And no-one else knows. I mentally construct a MyFace statu..."
"I like it better when my room is pitch black, when the dark is so thick it swallows me up and I feel as if I could drown in it."
"I dream of things I know nothing about."
"When did we all become fluent in this language that none of us wanted to learn?"
"They are all innocent until proven guilty. But not me. I am a liar until I am proven honest."