Abuse Quotes
My hands twitch as they tremble and every nerve and muscle in my body is frozen—numb.
You have to reach out to your inner-abuser and make peace. You can't live your life as your own worst enemy!
Sometimes, some of you speak about god, and I mistake him for an abusive lover you're trying to escape.
How long y' think it'll take t'git that wild streak out im?""Well, Brother Tiggins, that'll depend on how long he can weather the leather.
It's amazing how kids can be brutalized into a mold in witch they it right back to the weaker one and never think of escaping from the whole filthy mess.
If the most connected we’ve ever felt with another person was in that brief moment of apology and regret after physical abuse, then we’ll seek that abuse for the rest of our lives.
Tar had a reason, plenty of reasons. The latest were painted on his face, too.
The world isn't fair? What a huge revelation! Some people in power abuse those they have power over? Amazing! When did this start happening?
(To the haters) You are not extinguishing the bright lights of mankind, you're simply burying yourself in an unmarked grave.
You know she’s a liar if she says she’s never done it for ten bucks. We’ve all done it. Practically giving it away. But sometimes you can’t even give it away." - excerpt from: freefalling
Is a few hours of hell-raising, or respite from life's toil worth this every morning?
Sometimes you have to stop and ask yourself who’s really stupid, the guys who stop and pick you up, or you, for being out here in the first place?" - excerpt from: freefalling
On the street there is no tomorrow. There is only here and now and nothing else. And yesterday is just another day you’re trying to forget." - excerpt from: freefalling
Sometimes you just have to be there to understand, even if being there makes no sense at all." - excerpt from: freefalling
The moral of the tale is this: whoever allows himself to be whipped, deserves to be whipped.
Lyall's face went deadpan as he relayed the details, as those who are tortured or raped will become when they retell the pattern of abuse
Men with high baseline levels of testosterone marry less frequently, have more adulterous affairs, commit more spousal abuse, and divorce more often.
If I stay here, I will be just fine. Before I shut the door, I got a box of crackers from the kitchen, so I will be fine.
Love is a funny thing. It’s not at all what you expect it to be. But if you have to stand out on the corner to prove it, then maybe it’s better not to be in love at all." - excerpt from: freefalling
Today I’m going to pretend I’m dead. I wonder if anyone will notice." - excerpt from: freefalling
All you care about is the control and power you have over me and I hate myself for giving that to you!
I came to this house for safety. They came because the foster care system ran out of homes. We stayed because we were stray pieces of other puzzles, tired of never fitting.
It is this dependency that became, and is, the breeding ground for abuses of power.
One might say my life has been tragic. Yet, as I sat in pain in the hospital I raised my tired hands toward the sky, palms facing in, fingers spread, and I gave thanks.
The quiet but inexorable breaking down of self-esteem is much more sinister - it’s violation of the soul.
Who I am now is who I was before. The three years between, they were the aberration. You wouldn't recognize the person I became during that lost time. I barely do.
Each time he came he would twist my defenceless body into a different pose, as if I were his very own doll
The only reason I haven't shot you yet is because he's the one who should get to do it, " I say. "Stay away from him or I'll decide I no longer care.
Ana was a perpetual victim in a never-ending search for a victimizer.
She had been nothing but a beloved bauble passed from a mother to a son, a decoration of vanity, devoid of identity.
Dissociative Disorders have a high rate of responsiveness to therapy and that with proper treatment, their prognosis is quite good.
Many people with Dissociative Disorders are very creative and used their creative capacities to help them cope with childhood trauma.p55
No one would ever say that someone with a broken arm or a broken leg is less than a whole person, but people say that or imply that all the time about people with mental illness.
Deception and privileged secrets are common facets of politics.
Injustice and lawlessness is the greatest terror a government can ever enforce on its own people!
If you choose to be fearless, then be fearlessly authentic not an imitation of someone you envy.
It's all interrelated, these destructive things I do. I latch on to people, like I'm collecting them. I'm always looking for a hero, you know?
Everybody's good when they're good, darling. You don't judge a person by that. It's how they act when things aren't good that tells you who they really are.
No monster would hold the hurt I see in your eyes or carry the guilt you do every day.
Under the influence, I am easily influenced. I try to keep my pants on, but some things are easier said than done.
My slurred speech isn’t from one or nine drinks too many, it’s from my father.
It is essential that children who are directly or indirectly affected by domestic violence receive psychological care.
Even those who drink until blacking out, those who beat women, are not the exception, hopefully not the norm, trapped somewhere in society in a dark place nobody wants to talk about.
Too many codeine pills, Too many nights of cold chillsToo many weak-handed dealsToo many lives, the addict steals
Alcoholism is a choice... not a life sentence.
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