Sheryl Lee > Quotes

“Alicia hated confrontation, hated to disappoint or upset her family. Her role had always been the sensible one, the peacekeeper, the organiser. She had never had the teenaged rebellion that many of her friends had gone through. Alicia realized now that she had spent her whole life trying to be inconspicuous, unnoticed, unremarkable. She dressed conservatively, never showing her body or doing anything to draw attention to herself. It was not through shyness she now understood. It was an attempt to protect herself from a world that was cruel and unpredictable and where no-one could be trusted.”
― Sheryl Lee, Living a Lie

“You don’t need to feel how you think you should feel, or how somebody else thinks you should feel. There’s no right or wrong way to feel.”
― Sheryl Lee, Letters to Myself

“But verbal abuse destroys the mind, eats away at your self-esteem and your confidence. You become a scared mouse, and that was what I was, a scared mouse trying to defuse a situation that hadn’t even happened yet. I was always trying to anticipate what would set him off and stop it before it happened. Sometimes it worked but eventually something would cause an eruption.”
― Sheryl Lee, Letters to Myself