Kat

“I’ve always considered children’s parties an excuse for adults to get drunk under the guise of doing something special for their child. I know my dad had always exploited that idea anyway.”
― L.H. Cosway, A Strange Fire

“Cruelty comes in many shapes.  Sometimes, survival itself is one of them.”
― Michaelbrent Collings, Apparition

“Love and a sense of security are, of course, foundations for our psychological development. The food, water, and oxygen we need to grow a healthy self-image. If we don’t receive adequate unconditional love as children, especially during our first five years, we carry that deficiency with us for the rest of our lives, seeing it manifest itself in profound emotional problems and psychological defects. If our minds evolve in an environment over which we have no sense of security, no control, we are left with often permanent feelings of weakness, powerlessness.”
― D.C. Alexander, The Legend of Devil's Creek

“girls, even battered girls, tend to gravitate toward men who remind them of their fathers.”
― Bradley Convissar, Blood, Smoke and Ashes