Abuse-survivor Quote by Talena Winters Download Open image ““She could do this. She was stronger now. This was her chance to prove it.”” — Talena Winters ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Abuse-survivor Abuse-survivors Becoming stronger Changing Healing Healing-abuse Healing-the-past Luck Overcoming
“And I bet she'll be a stronger person because of what she lost today.” — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
“And I bet she'll be a stronger person because of what she's lost today. I have a feeling that once you live through something… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
“I could have been stronger,” she said. “I wasn’t enough to keep something so important.” — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
“She’d done harder things in her life, she could do this. She had to.” — Alexandra Ripley Copy Share Image
“She wasn’t sure how the hell to convince him to let her walk away. Deep down, she wasn’t sure she was strong enough to… — Katie Reus Copy Share Image
“I saw more clearly how much power she had given me, the damage I could do, her dependence on what I chose to say.” — Mia Alvar Copy Share Image
“And as he loped slowly past her, on his flexible hips, it seemed to her still that he was stronger than she was. Of… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“She was here, and she was stronger than this, harder than this. They could make her hate herself, make her doubt herself, but they… — Stacia Kane Copy Share Image
“Time took her strength but it gave her power in exchange. It was a fair trade. She” — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
“She's strong? Who's strong? Isn't she just pretending to be tough? She looks as if... She could get crushed so easily...” — Minari Endou Copy Share Image
“. However, a quiet voice inside her argued that it was worth dying, if death would prove that truth was more powerful than physical strength.” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“Desire had never done anything good in her life, so she had divorced it years ago.” — Talena Winters Copy Share Image
“For the first time in years, she felt a yearning for something different, something real. Something more than the life she had.” — Talena Winters Copy Share Image
“Steve's laugh was brittle. “Sarah, we all have our own wounds. We’re all broken in our own way. Mine might look different than yours,… — Talena Winters Copy Share Image
“I lived through this horror, and no one can tell me I have to stay quiet. "I have been silenced long enough, and I… — Erin Merryn Copy Share Image
“Survivors often develop an exaggerated need for control in their adult relationships. It’s the only way they feel safe. They also struggle with commitment—saying… — Laura Davis Copy Share Image
“When I deny the seriousness of my abuse I agree with my abuser and those who wouldn't acknowledge it. When I am in denial,… — Patty Hite Copy Share Image
“It was early in my career, and I had been seeing Mary, a shy, lonely, and physically collapsed young woman, for about three months in weekly… — Bessel A. van der Kolk Copy Share Image
“Along with the trust issues, one of the hardest parts to deal with is the feeling of not being believed or supported, especially by… — Erin Merryn Copy Share Image
“Being in a state of denial is a universally human response to situations which threaten to overwhelm. People who were abused as children sometimes… — Sarah E. Olson Copy Share Image
“Imagine the message that sent to my sister and me. A cousin violates us, confesses, and walks away with barely a slap on the… — Erin Merryn Copy Share Image
“Does he win if I go?' A quiet, tentative question. 'You have to decide that for yourself.” — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
“It's like I'm carrying around this huge secret that I'm never supposed to tell. But since I don't remember just what I'm supposed to… — Joan Frances Casey Copy Share Image
“While a psychiatric diagnosis can serve a purpose in treatment plans, it should not become a tool to discredit a person's disclosure of abuse.” — Lee Ann Hoff Copy Share Image
