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A victim soul is a pious individual chosen to absorb the pain and suffering of others.

We mutinied quietly, using every lesson we'd been taught by every person who'd ever used us for their own benefit.

Be good. Be a nice girl. Don't ruin our happy family.

All emotion receded, pulled out like low tide, leaving my brain an empty ocean bottom

In my family, you can rot to hell on the inside as long as you're flawless on the outside, which is really sick, but also hard to unlearn.

Ignorance of the outcome doesn't exempt you from the consequences.

Where is home?
Home is where the heart can laugh without shyness.
Home is where the heart's tears can dry at their own pace.

There are worse things in life to be than fat, and one of them is ignorant. Another is prejudiced. Another is deliberately cruel.

All you really have...is now.

Never say God - and the Beatles - don't have great timing.

Real life isn't like the movies. The victim doesn't usually win. She just endures.

We're not afraid of the dark. Our nightmares were born on sultry, summer afternoons.

somebody chokes, it's always on a hunk of steak.

Hate the behavior, not the individual.

The distant threat of eternal damnation pales in comparison to the immediate gratification of corrupting young skin.

My father's release date was given to all the local cops, school administrators, and youth group leaders.

And I don't want to hurt anymore. I want to be someone who makes it through

The ache starts in my chest and spreads through my veins. The abuse I can handle; it's the happiness that cripples.

Rape is not a mistake! He did it on purpose, over and over again because he wanted to, because he off on it-

Tomorrow belongs to betrayal. Today is mine and I don't want to waste it being afraid.

Tonight is when the obscene becomes the acceptable.

Meredith's a big girl. She knows how babies are made, don't you, Mer?"
I nod, numb and weary. "'Course I do. Same guy that taught you taught me.

this is no place for miracles

Sometimes the hardest people to love are the ones who need it the most.

My biggest mistake is in believing there are limits to how bad it can get.

There are only the three of us and our dark, burgeoning desires
I am so afraid of what comes next

Oh, there's a wholesome outing.' I say. 'Let's all skip down to the cop shop to register my daddy as a pervert. What fun.

Hell no. You're what saved you, kid. Not divine intervention.

Won't say anything, won't burst into tears and buckle under the weight of this last, awful straw.

And of how we never really know someone, no matter how much we want to believe that we do.

Knowing deep inside some ghosts are too cruel to question

Why should I just sit around hoping it happens when maybe I can do something to make it happen?

After school I all but ran to Gran's and it was funny how even with her so sick, being with her could still make me feel safe.

It's just that instead of erupting and annihilating our tormentors, we destroy ourselves instead.

Oh, baby girl," he says with a sigh. "I am so, so sorry.

So sometimes what takes you down can be used to raise you up again.

Being user friendly doesn't mean you're going to be loved.

I am shrunken and shriveled inside, a rotten chestnut hidden beneath a deceptively smooth shell

It's okay. Don't push her, Sharon.

No roll in the hay is worth losing what I've got.

How can you make someone love you when they won't? How long are you supposed to keep trying?

No step is a safe one, so it's safer to take none at all.