Sharene

“With her parents modeling such brutal favoritism, Sallie joined right in.  She constantly belittled Tina and joined in with the taunts of the bullies on the bus.  When an outsider sees a family member participating in abuse of another family member, the outsider quickly realizes it is okay to do the same. No one cared about this girl, not even her sister or parents, and Diane and I would sometimes join in on the teasing and taunts.”
― Kat Spencer, Carolina Sunshower

“I hated him. I hated them all. They made me hate myself even more than I already did.”
― Julie Anne Peters, By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead

“I openly talk about my past because we should embrace our mistakes and our dark times, because without them we’d never have the lessons and the light.”
― Kathryn Perez, Therapy

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird