Domestic Quotes
An option means decision, and a decision means acknowledging something is wrong and the shame one can no longer hide from.
Threatening a current or former partner isn't passion, or love, or heartache. It's violence, it's abuse and it's a crime.
Laziness has made our cities unclean. If we begin to work and act appropriately, we will clean our cities of any dirt.
Adoption is the most intentional process on Earth.
Life is definitely about taking chances, living every minute with zeal, and then laying back and regretting nothing.
I can no longer stay quiet in this world, I have a voice and I feel it reverberate off my internal walls, making its slow climb upward until its melody can be heard all around.
For me, adoption was grief in reverse.
Men demand much more than you think, " she would tell her enigmatically. "There's a lot of cooking, a lot of sweeping, a lot of suffering over little things beyond what you think.
Make sure your fun is not mocking someone’s pain and your enjoyment is not another’s suffering. The melody of your ears must not be the cries of a powerless.
The mere fact that I exist means that I deserve to be here and to express myself any damn why I please.
In situations of captivity the perpetrator becomes the most powerful person in the life of the victim, and the psychology of the victim is shaped by the actions and beliefs of the perpetrator.
Adoption is a beautiful, burdensome blessing.
It's brutal out there. A bear will eat a lactating ewe alive, starting with her udders. as a rule, animals in the wild don't get good deaths surrounded by their loved ones.
If we are to fight discrimination and injustice against women we must start from the home for if a woman cannot be safe in her own house then she cannot be expected to feel safe anywhere.
Domestic violence rarely affects only those directly involved in the abusive relationship.
If anyone hits me, they can expect to be hit back, and harder. I never turn the other cheek because in my experience that doesn’t work.
When we die, we go into the arms of those who remember us.
When Bill Burke asked my mother out, she experienced the unluckiest day of her life. Diana (to become my high school sweetheart-and wife) agreeing to go out with me was the luckiest day of my life.
Only the Army conducts an annual assessment, and they appear to do relatively little to analyze the problem, contributions to the problem, and potential solutions.
To tell a tale so great as to tear the soul inside out"Sara Niles, Torn From the Inside Out
These secrets are not secrets per se but are truths hidden from public view. I had to write this book. There had to be a reason I survived to tell this story.
No, Karl, not now. Take it easy. It’s our happy day.”Poul-Erik’s MotherThe Informer by Steen Langstrup
Domestic violence is frequently excused when alcohol and other substances are involved.
Society has seldom considered the vicarious effects of domestic violence between partners on the lives of children.
...Studies have found that children who witness abuse are more likely to accept relationships that are abusive.
It is a rare person who can cut himself off from mediate and immediate relations with others for long spaces of time without undergoing a deterioration in personality.
You couldn't not notice the bruise on the side of her face. Or the hickey under her chin.
We sat still, our breathing loud and rhythmic, its music melancholy, a traditional song of sorrow.
My hands twitch as they tremble and every nerve and muscle in my body is frozen—numb.
I always wondered. If…” Her mouth was on autopilot.“If what, Ella?”“If I crossed your mind wherever you were.”“You don’t cross my mind, Ella. You live in it.” He tugged her closer to him.
Those tingles she’d felt in her abdomen spread lower. Her body recognised her lover’s voice, wanted him.
He seemed to think that spanking solved problems instead of taking the time to talk about them.
He seemed to think that spanking soled problems instead of taking the time to talk about them.
I admired so many things about you. Almost everything. But I don’t want to wind up like you. I don’t want to starve to death, all alone on some island inside my own head. Hopeless.
Last night I dreamt Moses and I were rowing underwater.We could breathe and talk to one another.We rowed past schools of fish and sea anemones and Moses named them for me.”—Jules Finn
The lack of culpability of the perpetrator and his or her transference of blame onto alcohol or other substances only perpetuates the violent behaviors.
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.
Members of every major street gang, outlaw biker, and domestic extremist group have been found in a number of military branches.
Very few USA citizens realize that the USA corporate military is regarded by many to be both a domestic and international terrorist organization.
How many young men fear that there is a monster inside them? People are supposed to fear others, not themselves. People are supposed to aspire to become their fathers, not shudder at the thought.
The greatest domestic terrorists in the USA are either working for the corporate government or are funding it.
Jemima Jane Erickson was one drunken pass away from jumping Ethan Weston's bones. He just didn't know it.