Allan Hall > Quotes

“Yelling, bullying, threatening, temper tantrums, name calling, constant criticism, verbal attacks, ridiculing the woman’s pain, subtle attempts to confuse her and make her doubt her sanity, forgetting things that happened between them, accusations, blaming, and”
― Allan Hall, Monster

“Theirs was to be a relationship of shared defiance against small-town opprobrium, an all-embracing overprotective love.”
― Allan Hall, Monster

“As the working girls in the local brothels would later testify, he treated women as devoid of human feelings, therefore unworthy of tenderness or respect.”
― Allan Hall, Monster

“more than 50 per cent of Amstetten’s menfolk who had marched off to fight for Hitler did not make it back home.”
― Allan Hall, Monster

“She felt she was destined for the shelf until he came along.”
― Allan Hall, Monster

“He viewed her as a farmer views a prize cow: she was someone who would give him what he wanted – namely, a large family – and he demanded she respect his need for utter subservience in the relationship”
― Allan Hall, Monster

“Once she stopped to pluck a pink rhododendron flower that was just coming into bloom and took it back to the ward with her, twirling it in her hands.”
― Allan Hall, Monster

“Women are to be conquered, subdued, the way a mountaineer conquers a peak or a matador slays a bull.”
― Allan Hall, Monster

“We're in America; why do I have to "Press 1" for English?”
― Allan Hall

“when he wanted her opinion, he would give it to her.”
― Allan Hall, Monster