Sarah Ransome > Quotes

“I lost mine not grain by grain but with the bashing open of the hourglass, the toppling of shards to the floor.”
― Sarah Ransome, Silenced No More: Surviving My Journey to Hell and Back—The Shocking True Story of Surviving Epstein’s Island and Years of Abuse

“If I had been infatuated on night one, I was picking my bridesmaid colors by the second. I weep for the girl I was then. It took so little, the smallest hint of fondness, for me to fall not in love but in longing.”
― Sarah Ransome, Silenced No More: Surviving My Journey to Hell and Back—The Shocking True Story of Surviving Epstein’s Island and Years of Abuse

“had long had for my dad’s affection. When our romance proved more bruising than magical, I moved on but not forward. I went in search of another man, another father figure, who I thought could fill my void. It’s no coincidence that every beau I dated was significantly older than me. I didn’t want an equal partnership. I wanted a knight to rescue me, the damsel in distress. I may as well have been walking around with the words save me plastered on my forehead.”
― Sarah Ransome, Silenced No More: Surviving My Journey to Hell and Back—The Shocking True Story of Surviving Epstein’s Island and Years of Abuse

“The temptation, always, is to slide back into suffering, even to unknowingly create mayhem because that’s what is familiar.”
― Sarah Ransome, Silenced No More: Surviving My Journey to Hell and Back—The Shocking True Story of Surviving Epstein’s Island and Years of Abuse

“That makes neither of our perceptions erroneous. It proves both of us profoundly human.”
― Sarah Ransome, Silenced No More: Surviving My Journey to Hell and Back—The Shocking True Story of Surviving Epstein’s Island and Years of Abuse

“not that Ghislaine’s true goal was ever to discover the next Gisele Bündchen.”
― Sarah Ransome, Silenced No More: Surviving My Journey to Hell and Back—The Shocking True Story of Surviving Epstein’s Island and Years of Abuse

“The day you grow up is the day you grasp the truth: No prince is coming to save you. No magic horse exists. No paradise awaits you somewhere over the rainbow.”
― Sarah Ransome, Silenced No More: Surviving My Journey to Hell and Back—The Shocking True Story of Surviving Epstein’s Island and Years of Abuse

“He who protests the loudest, it has been said, is often the guiltiest.”
― Sarah Ransome, Silenced No More: Surviving My Journey to Hell and Back—The Shocking True Story of Surviving Epstein’s Island and Years of Abuse

“Unnamed in the plea deal yet towering amid the sisterhood of conspirators: Madam Maxwell”
― Sarah Ransome, Silenced No More: Surviving My Journey to Hell and Back—The Shocking True Story of Surviving Epstein’s Island and Years of Abuse

“I am the common denominator in my story, the protagonist directing every scene and unseen, even if unwittingly. All plotlines, all threads, begin and end with me.”
― Sarah Ransome, Silenced No More: Surviving My Journey to Hell and Back—The Shocking True Story of Surviving Epstein’s Island and Years of Abuse

“saw some girls who I thought were very young-looking—about 16 or 17 easily—and it bugged me because I have a daughter and, although she was in her 20s, I didn’t like the idea that another woman’s child was in that situation. I didn’t feel comfortable about it,”
― Sarah Ransome, Silenced No More: Surviving My Journey to Hell and Back—The Shocking True Story of Surviving Epstein’s Island and Years of Abuse

“My choice to stay, baffling as it may seem, was simply a desperation to live.”
― Sarah Ransome, Silenced No More: Surviving My Journey to Hell and Back—The Shocking True Story of Surviving Epstein’s Island and Years of Abuse

“Under Lady Liberty’s raised torch, past transgressions are forgotten, future impertinence is allowed. Anonymity is the city’s currency, celebrity its hallmark.”
― Sarah Ransome, Silenced No More: Surviving My Journey to Hell and Back—The Shocking True Story of Surviving Epstein’s Island and Years of Abuse

“The assault embeds beliefs in a survivor’s frontal lobe that she has no right to her boundaries, that she isn’t safe, that she’s dirty and discardable—lies that play out in her friendships, romances, work.”
― Sarah Ransome, Silenced No More: Surviving My Journey to Hell and Back—The Shocking True Story of Surviving Epstein’s Island and Years of Abuse

“Neglect isn’t usually announced. It’s felt.”
― Sarah Ransome, Silenced No More: Surviving My Journey to Hell and Back—The Shocking True Story of Surviving Epstein’s Island and Years of Abuse

“I and other trauma survivors often find it difficult to do: protect and prioritize ourselves.”
― Sarah Ransome, Silenced No More: Surviving My Journey to Hell and Back—The Shocking True Story of Surviving Epstein’s Island and Years of Abuse