“Strange how mean words can return to ones thoughts, years after they’ve been callously thrown at you. They replay in your mind, spiking a sense of remembered pain. Nasty name calling can be an ugly memory that stabs unexpectedly—not unlike a nightmare where you wake up crying.
Sticks and stones, may break your bones—yet, cruel names can hurt you.”
― Nikki Sex, quote from Abuse
“The actions and emotional responses of others are not your responsibility. You cannot rescue people from themselves. This is for them to do. — André Chevalier”
― Nikki Sex, quote from Abuse
“A child, without toxic interference, will naturally become the person they are meant to be. André Chevalier”
― Nikki Sex, quote from Abuse
“The patterns learned as a child, repeat as an adult. Those with an abusive childhood are very often oh-so blind to this inescapable truth.— André Chevalier”
― Nikki Sex, quote from Abuse
“A slut is a person of any gender who has the courage to lead life according to the radical proposition that sex is nice and pleasure is good for you.” — The Ethical Slut”
― Nikki Sex, quote from Abuse
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” ― Khalil Gibran”
― Nikki Sex, quote from Abuse
“What has been done to you is one thing. Yet to really suffer, to truly be burdened with guilt and shame, such pain always begins not with what has been done to you—but with what you have done. André Chevalier”
― Nikki Sex, quote from Abuse
“I have found that sometimes when a person gives up on 'humankind' they can often find trust and love in animal kind. André Chevalier”
― Nikki Sex, quote from Abuse
“All people, whatever they are doing, no matter how crazy or irrational it seems… it is how they need to act—from their perspective.”
― Nikki Sex, quote from Abuse
“Abuse? Ah. Such problems, even with time, do not go away on their own. They must be addressed. André Chevalier”
― Nikki Sex, quote from Abuse
“Evil deeds and lies—kept hidden—ruin lives. Secrets give evil the power to grow.”
― Nikki Sex, quote from Abuse
“Such a child must then live a lonely life of bitter uncertainty, constantly moving back and forth, between joy and despair.”
― Nikki Sex, quote from Abuse
“Abuse? Ah. Such problems, even with time, do not go away on their own. They must be addressed.”
― Nikki Sex, quote from Abuse
“One day at a time, sweet Jesus. Whoever wrote that one hadn’t a clue. A day is a fuckin’ eternity.” — Roddy DoyleIf”
― Nikki Sex, quote from Abuse
“I would much prefer to be sinned upon than the sinner. It is easier, comprenez-vous? With the clear conscience one sleeps very well.”
― Nikki Sex, quote from Abuse
“Usually, I go through life with my mouth shut. I’m a loner, mainly because I’m more comfortable alone.”
― Nikki Sex, quote from Abuse
“Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with that important talk can help us know we are not alone.”
― Nikki Sex, quote from Abuse
“Facing one’s past can be a perilous activity. For the client, joy must exceed misery. Personal successes must far outweigh losses. Pleasure must exceed pain. Always. Always. To do otherwise is a failure of the counselor.— André Chevalier”
― Nikki Sex, quote from Abuse
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“It is terribly bad form to admit to being terrified for one’s life, but nobody in their right mind would go to a Court banquet without making preparations. One must have the right costume, the right Faces, and at least eighty-two ways of avoiding assassination.”
― Frances Hardinge, quote from A Face Like Glass
“It's not just his understanding of me, although that's part of it. With a word, Tuesday can guide me to dozens of places. He can be my surrogate or a mirror to my heart.”
― Luis Carlos Montalván, quote from Until Tuesday: A Wounded Warrior and the Golden Retriever Who Saved Him
“The monk assumes a robe, changes his name, shaves his head, enters a cell and takes a vow of poverty and chastity; in the East he has one loin cloth, one robe, one meal a day - and we all respect such poverty. But those men who have assumed the robe of poverty are still inwardly, psychologically, rich with the things of society because they are still seeking position and prestige; they belong to this order or that order, this religion or that religion; they still live in the divisions of a culture, a tradition. That is not poverty. poverty is to be completely free of society, though one may have a few more clothes, a few more meals - good God, who cares? But unfortunately in most people there is this urge for exhibitionism.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, quote from Freedom from the Known
“I’d lost everything I had. I didn’t have the heart to take from someone else.” “Plus I would’ve sniped your ass.”
― Mindy McGinnis, quote from Not a Drop to Drink
“He was telling us that your voice will give comfort when the night becomes its blackest,” he replies. “And I’ll protect that voice with my body, my mind, and my spirit . . . because without it, I’m alone in the dark.”
― Amy A. Bartol, quote from Under Different Stars
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