“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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“But to anyone reasonable, my life will seem more or less normal-under-the-microscope, full of contingencies and incongruities none of us escapes and which do little harm in an existence that otherwise goes unnoticed.”
― Richard Ford, quote from Independence Day
“When you think you’re at the end of your rope, give it three more days. And then another three. Sometimes you’ll find the rope is longer than you thought.”
― Mary E. Pearson, quote from The Heart of Betrayal
“It so happens that the work which is likely to be our most durable monument, and to convey some knowledge of us to the most remote posterity, is a work of bare utility; not a shrine, not a fortress, not a palace, but a bridge. —MONTGOMERY SCHUYLER IN HARPER’S WEEKLY, MAY 24, 1883”
― David McCullough, quote from The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
“The wolf was not far away. After only a short time, he crested a nearby hill. His eyes blazing yellow fire. Fierce. For his mistress called. There she knelt. Queenly and yet so wild. Arrow set to bow - spilling out a bloody light.
At the sight of her, passion filled him. It rose in his gut, swelled his chest, then burst out of his throat. It overwhelmed the air and beat against the starry roof. The howl filled the mounds, rang out through the Vale and then rolled into Minonowe.
She had called him and here was his answer.
The spiders were out there. Running. With Luthiel, he would hunt them.”
― Robert Fanney, quote from The War of Mists
“Look around you...Feel the wind, smell the air. Listen to the birds and watch the sky. Tell me what's happening in the wide world.”
― Nancy Farmer, quote from The Sea of Trolls
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