Abuse Quotes

Very different from other middle grade of YA stories I've read about slaves running during the 1800s. – Wandering Librarian

Be alert! Some people have problems. Don't let them be your problem and don't ever allow their problems to infect you through their words and actions! Stay happy!

If you want to know the real reasons behind that attitude, think of the thought behind that attitude

It’s sadthat burnt marshmallowsmake me think ofmethamphetamine, when theyshould bringback childhoodmemories ofs’mores

What is this thing? Did you make it?”“I am a chemist, aren’t I?” Laurence says.“You own a meth-lab, ” Benjamin says. “That does not qualify you as a chemist.

You are not broken and in need of fixing. You are wounded and in need of healing.

You never have to suffer because of, or be denatured by, another person, even someone you love.

how many times had I begged Mom to divorce him already?

The more we get attached to any relationship, the more we lose the grip on our emotional freedom.

Now I’msober and Irealize, Ididn’t drink toescape the world, I drank to escapemyself

I'd never opened up the gas station if it had been someone else, but I know Tucker's fond of you. It's a shame you don't keep in touch with the old man.

Mom and dad probably told you I've been arrested. I'm innocent. I want you to know that.

Some things you jes' know Doll, and that's one I'd bet the farm on.

invalidation is crazy-making, and it is also at the root of gaslighting, where victims' feelings are purposely denied or manipulated in order to make them question their sanity.

I can sit in denial of my life because in looking around I see how lucky I am to have survived it.

The real heroes are those ones who are forgotten, forsaken and remain the nameless ones, in the history of time.

When we hide discrimination under the guise of 'religious freedom, ' we make a mockery of human rights.

We don't go back to wallow, we go back to undo the lies that are back there that are holding its captive from living a wondrous and full life.

Unspeakable feelings need to find expression in words. However... verbalization of very intense feelings may be a difficult task.

I believe that we belittle survivors by assuming that they will fail.

People who have survived atrocities often tell their stories in a highly emotional, contradictory and fragmented manner.

Miriam is upset. Her voice is stretched and I can't look at her. Perhaps they beat something out of her she didn't get back.

Vicki M. Taylor's "Not Without Anna, " is a gripping, hard-hitting, thought-provoking look at the escalating crisis of teen alcohol and drug abuse. Charlene Austin

My father gave me everything he had. Everything I had I gave to alcohol.

Never say war insane at the moment for you to embrace those gentle heroes you left behind.

If love breaks more than a heart, maybe it's a sign and time to step out.

The greatest domestic terrorists in the USA are either working for the corporate government or are funding it.

So many lives are in bitterness today not just because of how their pasts were abused, but how they think they were innocent.

Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear so don't look and they'll stay farther away than you expect they would.

Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) is a major problem from poorly tested products and it should be dealt with sooner rather than later by government regulators.

I read therefore I write.

Security is not a license for people in authority to hide tactics they would never openly admit to using.

When the locus of evaluation is seen as residing in the expert, it would appear that the long-range social implications are in the direction of the social control of the many by the few.

THOSE WHO SAID IT CAN'T BE DONE...SHOULDN'T GET IN MY WAY WHILE I'M DOING IT!

You are not mad. You are recovering from trauma. Mad people abused you,

I live in a world where not being molested as a child is considered luck.

Sometimes the guys who look the most normal are the biggest pervs of all.

There are generally three parties to child abuse: the abused, the abuser and the bystander.

When fear rules, obedience is the only survival choice.

People ask, how can a person abuse a child? I ask, how can so many 'good' people not do anything about it?

Children are better to starve than forced into prostitution.

You know what happens to me!

The Persian rug served as their country with people living injade green jungles and others living in an opal cream sky.They were so light. No one would ever be able to tell thatthey had lived there.

The child who attends school does not remember the abuse that happens at home or via the family

If we are taken all together, we might muster some courage, but from the previous evidence it is likely that we will be taken separately.

Ethan didn't mind his blood being taken - he just disliked the fact that it had to be sucked through a needle in order to do it.

Always find the funny.

It is the selfish parents who are to blame. Pay attention, be involved in your children’s lives. They are your legacy, your only hope.

Cruel Harvest by Fran Elizabeth Grubb is a memoir that will touch your heart.

All animals understand love and affection, but only man shows the propensity to place himself into the shoes of another life form