“ The idea that you have to be protected from any kind of uncomfortable emotion is what I absolutely do not subscribe to. John Cleese
“ I am sorry.I'm sorry that I feel as if you don't trust me enough to confide me. This is me being selfish even though this isn't about me, it's about you. I'm sorry that it makes me upset that in those… Mari
“ I have lost people, though.It's strange when it happens. I don't actually lose them. Not in the way one loses one's parents, either as a small child, when you think you are holding your mother's hand… Neil Gaiman
“ The lovelorn came, too. The alone. The lunatics-they were brought here, sometimes. Got their name from the moon, it was only fair the moon had a chance to fix things. Neil Gaiman
“ The witch was as old as the mulberry treeShe lived in the house of a hundred clocksShe sold storms and sorrows and calmed the seaAnd she kept her life in a box. Neil Gaiman
“ There. Consider yourself warned. There are so many little triggers out there, being squeezed in the darkness even as I write this. This book is correctly labeled. Now all we have to worry about is all… Neil Gaiman
“ She was so upset about a blog that maybe a total of six people read yet had no compassion for her granddaughters who had suffered the physical and emotional pains of sexual abuse and whose lives were… Erin Merryn
“ My goal in going public was not to put my extended family to shame, or to get back at Brian for abusing my sister and me; rather, my mission was to give a face and voice to an epidemic that society st… Erin Merryn
“ I felt like I needed to comfort both the little girl inside me and my mother, assuring them that neither of them could have prevented the rape. I didn't want my mother to blame herself and I didn't wa… Erin Merryn
“ I think repressing what happened is what saved me in my childhood. I was able to use my imagination to create happy events, but a little girl can carry only so much on her own. Erin Merryn
“ When I felt as though I had reached land, it was like I was on a deserted sandy beach, feeling isolated and afraid to share with anyone the memories that haunted me. Erin Merryn
