1,745 Quotes About Abuse

  • Author J.T. Geissinger
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    How do you tell someone it’s surprisingly easy to surrender to horror once you accept there’s no way out? Survival is simply the art of suffering gracefully when we’re up against forces out of our control. I lost my fear of dying because I expected it every minute of every day.Tomorrows only exist in our minds.

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  • Author Charles F Glassman
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    Abuse and addiction arise when self-destruction becomes one’s dysfunctional comfort zone. The sayings go that life begins and the magic happens outside your comfort zone. These sayings were never truer than in these cases.

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  • Author Tess Sharpe
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    My heart has a piece of Wes wrapped around it like a bandage. My skin will hold the memory of him as permanent, because you don't forget the first person to touch you with love after life's taught you all touch is fear and pain.

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  • Author Kate Elizabeth Russell
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    He'll never meet you," I say. It's a hard truth, carrying within it grief and joy. Jo opens her eyes, doesn't lift her head as she watches me. She's constantly taking in my face and tone, noticing everything about me. When I start to drift away, her tail thumps against the couch cushion, like a drumbeat, a heartbeat, a rhythm of grounding. You're here, she says. You're here. You're here.

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