1,745 Quotes About Abuse

When your faith and hope slip, grace wins every time.

Embrace the pain

Choose to live, by choosing to leave.

Each precious grasp of air, felt like baby steps to survive even if you didn't want me to

More often than not, what animals require our protection from is not hurricanes or fires, but abuse at the hands of other people".

We make a mistake in thinking that something is right or wrong because culture deems it such. Nothing could be further from the truth. Yes, culture may approve or disapprove, but if there is no overarching umbrella of truth beyond culture, our times may wreak havoc in the name of culture. Slavery is an example of this. People did not flinch at the barbaric practices that were tolerated for so long.The abuse of marriage is no less a crime against humanity.

no one can recover if they won’t admit the wrongdoings. i won’t recover if i pretend it was all sunshine. i have to remember his vindictive temper and realize that sheltering the house from the storm wasn’t actually going to make a difference if i still got damaged in the process. because then it’s just another broken house with no one to tell its story.

What a mystery a marriage was. What a strange and violent world, the world of matrimony. I was glad to be outside it. The idea of it filled me with a sort of queasy pity.

Little pictures out of hell.