1,745 Quotes About Abuse

There are dangerous people ready to pull the seams out of everything you've stitched together, and they can pull apart faster than you can hold.

They don’t last long. It's horrible and filled with more pain and misery than a full life can hold, but it's rarely a long time. The treatment is too rough and too careless, and they are so fragile.

Memory is the great torturer.

FIGARO Usage, Mr Clerk, is often another name for abusage. Every client with a rudimentary education always has a better grasp of his own case than some floundering lawyer who loves the sound of his own voice, knows everything except the facts, and is no more concerned about ruining his client than about boring the court and putting their worships to sleep. And afterwards he is as pleased with himself as if he’d personally written the oration Pro Murena, Cicero’s finest.

My Big Mama raised us. She'd tell me and my two girl cousins every time we left the house, 'Y'all be careful. It's dangerous being a girl out there.'” Gale lets out a hard, sharp laugh that turns into a wet cough. “What I found out was the danger wasn't always out there, if you get what I'm saying. But it was like I just knew not to say a word 'bout nothing 'cause people don't wanna know that shit.

There’s a difference between extending grace, and receiving abuse.

It's one thing to reach for a bottle and become a monster, a mean drunk, but it's another thing to have that bottle inside you. A rage organ.

People tried to tell me all my life - and they still do - that abusers don't really know what they are doing is wrong, but if that is the case then how do they know that it needs to be hidden?

I believe nobody was ever so used by a friend as I have been by her ever since coming to the Crown.