'katy Shrimpy

“Forgive me," he said in a hard voice. "My heart is breaking over here. I'm doing the best I can.”
― Corrine Jackson, Pushed

“I talk about a life that I pretend to live and you ask me what I’m talking about. But when I finally tell, you regret finding out.”
― Harley Mei Kent

“Being in a state of denial is a
universally human response to
situations which threaten to
overwhelm. People who were abused
as children sometimes carry their
denial like precious cargo without a
port of destination. It enabled us to
survive our childhood experiences, and often we still live in survival mode decades beyond the actual abuse. We protect ourselves to excess because we learned abruptly and painfully that no one else would.”
― Sarah E. Olson, Becoming One: A Story of Triumph Over Dissociative Identity Disorder

“I want to drag knives over my skin, just to feel something other than shame, but I'm not even brave enough for that”
― Paula Hawkins , The Girl on the Train