‘There are many who don’t wish to sleep for fear of nightmares. Sadly there are many who don’t wish to wake for the same fear.’ ― Richelle E. Goodrich, Dandelions: The Disappearance of Annabelle Fancher
‘When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.’ –—Wayne Dyer
You know that sympathy that you feel for an abused child who suffers without a good mom or dad to love and care for them? Well, they don’t stay children forever. No one magically becomes an adult the day they turn eighteen. Some people grow up sooner, many grow up later. Some never really do. But just remember that some people in his world are older versions of those same kids we cry for.’ ––Ashly Lorenzana
‘….you don’t have to wait for someone to treat you bad repeatedly. All it takes is once, and if they get away with it that once, if they know they can treat you like that, then it sets a pattern for the future.’ ― Jane Green, Bookends
‘There are far too many silent sufferers. Not because they don’t yearn to reach out, but because they’ve tried and found no one who cares.’
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
Don’t judge yourself by what others did to you.’ ― C. Kennedy, Ómorphi
“There’s a phrase, “the elephant in the living room”, which purports to describe what it’s like to live with a drug addict, an alcoholic, an abuser. People outside such relationships will sometimes ask, “How could you let such a business go on for so many years? Didn’t you see the elephant in the living room?” And it’s so hard for anyone living in a more normal situation to understand the answer that comes closest to the truth; “I’m sorry, but it was there when I moved in. I didn’t know it was an elephant; I thought it was part of the furniture.” There comes an aha-moment for some folks – the lucky ones – when they suddenly recognize the difference.”
― Stephen King
We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.–—George Bernard Shaw