You don't deserve the anger you're turning on yourself. Your abuser's the one who does.
I should know better than anyone--you can't tell who a person is just from his looks.
You can see when someone's been hurt the way I was. It's obvious. Something changes in their eyes; pain becomes their center, even when they try to hide it.
I hate my body Hate what it remembers. Hate what it let him do.
If I want to get out of here, I have to be the one to save myself.
I know I'm not to blame for what he did. And I know, too, that I am strong inside--stronger than I ever realized.
I know you're upset, I know you're scared, but don't walk away.
I think you've got to get out whatever's hurting you through your art, so it doesn't twist you up inside.
Other times, I look at my scars and see something else: a girl who was trying to cope with something horrible that she should never have had to live through at all. My scars show pain and suffering, b...
