“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
Nikki Sex
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“I have heard the key
Turn in the door once and turn once only
We think of the key, each in his prison
Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison”
― T.S. Eliot, quote from The Waste Land
“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
― Jane Austen, quote from Northanger Abbey
“To produce the kind of landscape effects Olmsted strived to create required not months but years, even decades. "I have all my life been considering distant effects and always sacrificing immediate success and applause to that of the future," he wrote. "In laying out Central Park we determined to think of no result to be realized in less than forty years.”
― Erik Larson, quote from The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
“But now, by saying what his future was going to be like, he had created it. A plan is a real thing, and things projected are experienced. A plan once made and visualized becomes a along with other realities-never to be destroyed but easily to be attacked.”
― John Steinbeck, quote from The Pearl
“You sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you've got enough nerve.”
― J.K. Rowling, quote from Harry Potter Boxset
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