1,745 Quotes About Abuse

On je bio mesec. Ti si bila sunce. Ono što nisi znala, mesec je hladno nebesko telo, prekriveno kamenjem i prašinom. Mesec ne može sam da sija. Sunčeva svetlost reflektuje se na njegovu površinu, omogućava mu da svetli. Ma koliko sunce bilo uporno, ma koliko njegova svetlost mazila hladnoću, prašinu i kamenje, jedna strana meseca uvek ostaje u potpunom mraku. To je ona skrivena strana koju ni sam mesec ne može da ugleda. To je onaj mrak koga se i pakao plaši.

If you can abuse and insult values, with the support of crutches of freedom of press and speech; I can do that too. I am also a free person; keep that in your mind, and shut your mouth.

Dehumanization can be a sickening, horrible experience for the person at whom it is directed. If you are involved with a sexually exploitative partner, you may find that sex is sometimes, or perhaps always, a nightmare. Exploitative, rough, coercive, uncaring sex is similar to physical violence in its effects, and can be worse in many ways. And part of why it feels so degrading is that a woman can sense the fact that in her partner's mind she has ceased to exist as a human being.

...ABA doesn't aim to offer neuroqueer children new repertoires of meaning. To smile isn't to signify one's contentment; it's to comply with a behavioral and prosocial demand.

The rhetorical training of ABA might be best understood as a kind of "we are always watching you.

As Esther reached her father’s side, his hand snaked out to grab hold of her upper arm. She gasped, wincing as he dragged her along beside him. For the second time in a single day, AJ found himself wanting to intercede, but this time he didn’t.Adults had a code all their own.

(Schaffa saw her hand on the child's face, covering mouth and nose, pressing. Incomprehensible. Did she not know that Schaffa would love her son as he loved her? He would lay the boy down gently, so gently, in the wire chair.)

Sometimes the bad things we experience in life can teach us the greatest and most valuable lessons. The bad things we experience and the bad people we meet teaches us how to be stronger, how to learn to forgive how to have patience, how to keep a good attitude when things are difficult.

I moonlight as the greatest actor. I smile. I choose the comedy mask every time. I tell those who worry that I am fine, that I always will be. There is nothing to gain from these lies. I win no awards, yet I bow. On that stage I tell my life story with the lightest of words, the heaviest of hearts. I bleed for the people who stay and watch. Behold: the comedy, the tragedy. They smile and cheer. They clap for this. And I bow, and I bow, and I bow.