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“The silences after his last gasp were sung together by a blackbird. I lay there, my eyes unable to close. His were unable to open. I listed the places where I hurt, and how much. My loins felt ripped. Something inside had torn. There were seven places on my body where he had sunk his fangs into my skin and bitten. He'd dug his nails into my neck, and twisted my head to one side, and clawed my face. I hadn't made a noise. He had made all the noise for both of us. Had it hurt him?”
― Ghostwritten
― Ghostwritten
“All you care about is the control and power you have over me and I hate myself for giving that to you!”
― Screaming in the Silence
― Screaming in the Silence
“I tried very hard not to ponder the horrible irony that I was too ugly to love, and too ugly not to violate.”
― Truth in the Dark
― Truth in the Dark
“The horror of incest is not in the sexual act. but in the exploitation of children and the corruption of parental love. p4”
― Father-Daughter Incest
― Father-Daughter Incest
“If you have survived an abuser, and you tried to make things right… If you forgave, and you struggled, and even if the expression of your grief and your anger tumbled out at times in too much rage and too many words… If you spent years hanging on to the concepts of faith, hope, and love, even after you knew in your heart that those intangibles, upon which life is formed and sustained, would fail in the end… And especially, if you stood between your children - or anyone - and him, and took the physical, emotional, and spiritual pummeling in their stead, then you are a hero.”
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