15 Quotes by Rachel Abbott

Today is the day after my wedding. And nothing is the way I expected it to be.

It was as if she would never be whole until the secrets of the past were exposed.

She searched her mind for a single day when it had felt good to be alive. There must have been one, surely?

A radio was playing quietly. Nobody was listening. It was there to drown out the silence.

The quiet but inexorable breaking down of self-esteem is much more sinister - it’s violation of the soul.

Each time he came he would twist my defenceless body into a different pose, as if I were his very own doll

I would rather have been with one parent who was genuinely happy than with two who had so many axes to grind you could almost hear them being sharpened.

Emma wondered not for the first time how silence could vary so much in pitch and tone. This silence held a high-pitched scream at its heart.

How could pain that wasn’t inflicted by a physical assault hurt so much? How could emotional distress turn into this agonising emptiness?