Child Abuse Quotes

How do you circumvent a mind bent upon lying to get away from the truth?

If you can get to be you, why can't I get to be me?

I ask you, what would you do if you could erase one bad memory and retain all that was beautiful in your life? Would you not move heaven and earth - and get loads of therapy - to have that?

He wrote to his father every day. His platoon called his dad a girlfriend.

I think repressing what happened is what saved me in my childhood. I was able to use my imagination to create happy events, but a little girl can carry only so much on her own.

Josh joined her at the window. She let him look. He should know that the world was not all lessons and iguanas and Nintendo. It was also this muddy simple boy tethered like an animal.

Youngsters deserve no opinions.

If you say there is no such thing as morality in absolute terms, then child abuse is not evil, it just may not happen to be your thing.

He was six years old this time, and ancient.

Improving the world can be a nasty and ugly and difficult and dangerous business...because when you improve the world, you threaten the entrenched interests of evil people.

There are parents who use their small children as weapons. They are weak people. Sick people. And their children are watching them, watching how Mom and Dad use them as weapons.

Because it is so hard, some people wait until they are in their thirties, forties, fifties, or even older before breaking their silence.

Believe in Eternity, believe in childhood, believe that the beauty of innocence lives on and on and on. I know it does.

Actions have consequences. Kids today don’t think about that. It’s like, ‘Hey, wouldn’t this be awesome?!’ Consequences? What are those?

Work hard. "Suit yourself, then you'll know at least one person is pleased.

It's all interrelated, these destructive things I do. I latch on to people, like I'm collecting them. I'm always looking for a hero, you know?

An Underground Railroad story with a distinctive flavor. –Booklist

A gripping historical novel . . . heart-stopping, heart-racing and eventually heart-easing.–Library Voice

Very different from other middle grade of YA stories I've read about slaves running during the 1800s. – Wandering Librarian

I read therefore I write.

THOSE WHO SAID IT CAN'T BE DONE...SHOULDN'T GET IN MY WAY WHILE I'M DOING IT!

You are not mad. You are recovering from trauma. Mad people abused you,

I live in a world where not being molested as a child is considered luck.

Sometimes the guys who look the most normal are the biggest pervs of all.

There are generally three parties to child abuse: the abused, the abuser and the bystander.

When fear rules, obedience is the only survival choice.

People ask, how can a person abuse a child? I ask, how can so many 'good' people not do anything about it?

You know what happens to me!

The Persian rug served as their country with people living injade green jungles and others living in an opal cream sky.They were so light. No one would ever be able to tell thatthey had lived there.

If we are taken all together, we might muster some courage, but from the previous evidence it is likely that we will be taken separately.

Ethan didn't mind his blood being taken - he just disliked the fact that it had to be sucked through a needle in order to do it.

Always find the funny.

Cruel Harvest by Fran Elizabeth Grubb is a memoir that will touch your heart.