Serket

“This is complicated to explain”
― Virginia Roberts Giuffre, Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice

“there’s something within all of us, even when we’re not aware of it, that fights to keep our spirits alive.”
― Virginia Roberts Giuffre, Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice

“I could feel my brain begin to shut down. My body couldn’t escape from this room, but my mind couldn’t bear to stay, so it put me on a kind of autopilot: submissive and determined to survive.”
― Virginia Roberts Giuffre, Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice

“It was as if my feeling safe cleared a path for some of the most awful memories—ones that I’d locked away for years—to come to the forefront of my mind. When you’re fighting for survival, you don’t process trauma; you bury it. Well, now that I was surrounded by love, all that ugliness had decided it had been buried long enough.”
― Virginia Roberts Giuffre, Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice