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“I’d learned staying alive meant behaving in an expected way. Even when the beatings had stopped hurting, I’d never stopped screaming. They hadn’t just wanted to inflict pain on me, they’d wanted to see me reacting to the pain.
My life would have ended when I stopped responding. So I’d continued to scream and wail and cry as long as I’d been physically able to
I was less sure of what Lev Nemov wanted from me. I’d looked as closely into his eyes as I dared and searched for the cruelty I’d seen in theirs. But he was telling the truth about not wanting to hurt me. I was sure of that. I knew what evil looked like.”
― Tortured Innocence
My life would have ended when I stopped responding. So I’d continued to scream and wail and cry as long as I’d been physically able to
I was less sure of what Lev Nemov wanted from me. I’d looked as closely into his eyes as I dared and searched for the cruelty I’d seen in theirs. But he was telling the truth about not wanting to hurt me. I was sure of that. I knew what evil looked like.”
― Tortured Innocence
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