Speak Guilt and Blame Quotes Page 4
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| Quote #10 There's more. Different pens, different handwriting, conversations between some writers, arrows to longer paragraphs. (84.9) |
Melinda's anti-Andy graffiti gets a big response. This is the main way we, and Melinda and Ivy, learn that Andy's made a career of victimizing the girls at school. This helps Melinda understand that the rape isn't her fault.
| Quote #11 "I never raped anybody. I don't have to. You wanted it just as bad as I did. But your feelings got hurt, so you start spreading lies, and now every girl in school is talking about me like I'm so kind of pervert. (87.8) |
If Andy has said stuff like this to Melinda earlier in the school year, she might have believed it on some level. Now she knows better.
| Quote #12 There is no avoiding it, no forgetting. No running away, or flying, or burying, or hiding. Andy Evans raped me in August when I was drunk and too young to know what was happening. It wasn't my fault. […] And I'm not going to let it kill me. I can grow. (89.9) |
Melinda understands that while she's not responsible for being rape, she is responsible for taking control of her recovery from it.
