Saxon Sharbino: Savannah Ross

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Savannah Ross

Savannah Ross: Fourteen years living in other people's houses, sleeping in other people's beds... you know what you pray for most? A new lightbulb. It's crazy, right? But the other one kept burning out because I was too scared to shut it off.
Olivia Benson: I'm so sorry.
Savannah Ross: You know what's worse than being scared? Being pitied. Yeah, I should have told you that I already reported it to other cops. What's the point? People like you don't believe people like me.
Olivia Benson: I believe you, Savannah. I believe you.

Olivia Benson: You know, I know that you had it rough. Couldn't have been easy growing up in foster homes. But a lot of kids grow up in foster care. And a lot of kids have crappy lives.
Savannah Ross: And a lot of them grow up to run for Congress or win Nobel Prizes in physics.
Olivia Benson: Exactly, because they stopped seeing themselves as victims, so they stop being victims. Savannah, your life is far from over.

Savannah Ross: After it happened, I didn't want to be alone. That's why I went out drinking with my friends. And if that makes me a liar...
Olivia Benson: It doesn't.
Savannah Ross: Just feel so alone, you know?
Olivia Benson: What about family? What about your parents?
Savannah Ross: What about them? Look at me. Exhibit A, all the wonders of the New York City foster care system in all its glory.

Amanda Rollins: [to Savannah] We really should get you to the hospital.
Savannah Ross: Why?
Amanda Rollins: There's this thing called a rape kit. It can give us traces of the rapist's DNA.
Savannah Ross: He made me shower for a long time. I heard this ticking. I don't think they're going to find anything.

Savannah Ross: Nobody believes me. I just have one of those faces.
Olivia Benson: That's not true.
Savannah Ross: You didn't believe me.
Olivia Benson: That was 100% my fault. I made a mistake and I'm sorry.
Savannah Ross: Can I get you something? I don't have anything to drink, but I have some cronuts. Not a croissant, not a donut. It doesn't know quite what it is. Just like me.