Abuse-sexual-abuse Quote by Elizabeth Smart

“Suddenly he knew all the things he should have said.”

— Erich Maria Remarque

“You can't miss what you never had. And definitely not what you don't understand.”

— Lori G. Armstrong

“He had heard it the way he wanted to hear it. He had known what he had wanted to know. Maybe it was always…

— Joe Hill

“It was a lesson I had taken most of my life to learn. Sometimes you have to let things go.”

— Steve Hamilton

“I had the feeling deep in my gut that there'd been lines I should have spoken, gestures I should have made, that would have…

— Megan Crewe

“I was too stubborn to really take on what she was saying. But we're all guilty sometimes of only listening to what we want…

— Lesley Pearse

“But I know that I am not who I was supposed to be, who I could have been, and I know it's because I…

— Nancy Werlin

“I've said what I had to say.”

— Eudora Welty

“If you don’t understand something, you should just try to learn more, that’s all.”

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“He had never understood the niceties of life and it was too late to start learning now.”

— Jeffrey Archer

“It was a complicated look. I remember thinking that, and I also remember thinking that you had to have known someone for a really…

— Brock Clarke

“You learn not to think about what might have been, and to just appreciate what you have.”

— Jonathan Tropper