Victoria Spry > Quotes

“each scar, each missing tooth and each mangled bit of my body revealed the truth.”
― Victoria Spry, Tortured

“The only good thing was that every day I was away from Mum, I felt stronger. The more I didn’t see her, and her cold, dark eyes, the more strength I gained. Every minute I wasn’t in her company, and was with regular people, the safer I felt and the more confident I became”
― Victoria Spry, Tortured

“For years and years my mum had got away with what she’d done, no one had ever stood up to her. From a tiny age, I had watched her walk all over people and get her way, but now, somehow, some crazy how, it was me who was sticking my head above the parapet, and saying it was wrong, and that I’d had enough. Me.”
― Victoria Spry, Tortured

“I wasn’t addicted to the alcohol as such. I was addicted to not feeling that hideous, horrible pain.”
― Victoria Spry, Tortured

“The world might have abandoned us children, but I was determined never to abandon anyone I loved. I knew only too well how it felt to be alone.”
― Victoria Spry, Tortured

“In the end, I realized there was only one person who could help me.. and that person was myself. I had to help myself.”
― Victoria Spry, Tortured

“I used to be ashamed of my scars; I would think I was a waste of space and that they meant I didn’t belong anywhere. But, looking at them now, I just thought, They’re a part of me. In a way, while I may not have had any exam grades or letters after my name, those scars were my qualifications.”
― Victoria Spry, Tortured

“Whenever anybody got close to me, I felt like my secret was this big bomb about to go off; that I was about to ruin a life. It was as if I represented to people the cruellest acts that humans can do to each other, and often they would go away and leave me because they couldn’t cope with that.”
― Victoria Spry, Tortured

“It was a place for people with mental health problems and not alcoholics; as though the two could be neatly divided like that; as though the world was black and white and not a murky grey.”
― Victoria Spry, Tortured

“Sometimes you need a champion to show you the light through the dark.”
― Victoria Spry, Tortured

“I wasn't living, just existing.”
― Victoria Spry, Tortured