Time Quote by Dana Spiotta

“Abuse ambushed my life, I could not love myself truly and could never have a healthy relationship, they were either abused or completely impaired.”

— Patricia Dsouza

“Abuse is never contained to a present moment, it lingers across a person’s lifetime and has pervasive long-term ramifications.”

— Lorraine Nilon

“He always behaved like one who has been deprived of love.”

— David Howarth

“The person he'd hurt the most though, ultimately, was himself. It was his dreams that had come to nothing. His future that had folded…

— Tilly Bagshawe

“It was too much for him, the knowledge that all of this had happened before. That he was the scion of a people abused;…

— N.K. Jemisin

“He endured the curse of every man. He had suffered the inevitability of unrequited love.”

— Felix Alexander

“He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled dreams of an inarticulate lifetime.”

— Edith Wharton

“He manipulated love into something perverse, confusing me about what love is, causing me to sexualize friendships and relationships, teaching me without words that…

— Monica Holloway

“That got him thinking about his life. It seemed a bitter, pointless sort of life now. No one was any better off because of…

— Joe Abercrombie

“The grudge was fundamental. Perhaps he could not have given it up if he tried. Perhaps he got more satisfaction out of feeling himself…

— Willa Cather

“Self-loathing was on the agenda for the foreseeable future and he found it hard to imagine a way past it.”

— Neil Walker

“Because of that, he didn't know how to love someone who actually loved him. He had learned a twisted, tormented kind of love filled…

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn