Child Abuse Quotes

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“It is, after all, far too easy to pinch and kick the bizarre Mormon Church; to say it's ripe for satire and parody is to say a Catholic schoolgirl is ripe for debauchery. It's like shooting polygamist fish in a barrel of coffee.”
Mark Morford

Dorothy Allison
“I remembered those moments in the hospital parking lot like a bad dream, hazy and shadowed. When Daddy Glen looked at me, I saw no sign that he ever thought about it at all. Maybe it had not happened. Maybe he really did love us. I wanted him to love us. I wanted to be able to love him.”
Dorothy Allison, Bastard Out of Carolina

Kate Elizabeth Russell
“What girl would want what he did to me? But it’s the truth, whether anyone believes it or not. Driven toward it, toward him, I was the kind of girl that isn’t supposed to exist: one eager to hurl herself into the path of a pedophile”
Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

Kate Elizabeth Russell
“It’s strange to know that whenever I remember of myself at fifteen, I'll think of this”
Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

Kate Elizabeth Russell
“Is it really impossible to imagine that I might emerge from this worldly and wise, a girl with a story to tell?”
Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

Kate Elizabeth Russell
“I wonder how much victimhood they’d be willing to grant a girl like me”
Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

Kate Elizabeth Russell
“This, I think, is the cost of telling, even in the guise of fiction-once you do, it's the only thing about you anyone will ever care about. It defines you whether you want it to or not.”
Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“Abuse thrives in secrecy, whereas out in the open it wilts and dies. The more we can bring abuse of any kind out into the world, where we can examine it and talk about it, the more likely we are to see the back of it.”
Hibo Wardere, Cut: One Woman's Fight Against FGM in Britain Today

“Then Joe felt Titus unbutton his jeans. His heart skidded to a stop and then started again. Twisting, he slumped to the ground, dragging Titus with him. Ramona had warned him not to let Titus do anything to him there. But it felt so good, he sprawled back with his eyes closed. Sweat broke out on him everywhere. The sun was so hot for that time of year. A current of fire raced from his brain down his backbone. Then he felt evil and empty, but relaxed”
Hal Bennett

Susan Doherty
“On train trips, Ernie always wanted the window seat. He knew the names of the trees we passed, and the clouds—nacreous, cumulus, nimbus. He was ever vigilant for animal life and appreciative of the tiny patches of humanity along the tracks that exposed the lives of the rail-side dwellers in such intimate detail. “I love sad houses,” he’d say, pointing to a chorus line of discoloured laundry waving at us, to an upturned self-propelled lawnmower, straggly gardens, leaky drainpipes, a rain-weathered pram that had been turned into a wheelbarrow. “The porch lights are on to keep the rats in their dens,” he’d said. To be a voyeur of decay at such close range was as much of an enthrallment as it was a validation of the scarcities in his own backyard. I knew exactly which days Ernie’s mum had had to choose between heating the house and putting food on the table. My mother had been there too. Before the Zipper had given her a leg up.”
Susan Doherty, Monday Rent Boy

Jonathan Harnisch
“How can a father yearn for bonds so tight, Yet vanish when his son needs him the most? The weight of absence lingers in the night, A haunting ache, a love that feels like ghost. More than twice this year, death's shadow looms near, yet deeper still, a wound that haunts the soul. Your absence leaves a void, a heavy ache. Though I forgive, the weight of loss remains, A shadow cast by dreams that slipped away. It fails to see the void that haunts my soul. Perhaps it’s time to gaze upon this plight,

Yet I must share, I cannot stand by you. Not evermore.”
Jonathan Harnisch

“I cannot stress enough how good it is to know the future. If I didn’t come back with my memories intact, I would have probably clung to my father. I would have hated to see myself, unlovable, begging for attention, and finally turning into an ugly woman all over again. Yes, to live a good life… I just need to do nothing. The moment I tried to do something, I would attract people’s hatred and anger.”
Ramgeul Geul, 폭군님은 착하게 살고 싶어 [Poggunnim'eun Chaghage Salgo Sip'eo]

Nyx Thorn
“In my youth
I was nurtured upon the bitter bread of tension,
each breath seasoned by unquiet nights
and guarded dawns.

Thus did my flesh learn
to thrive on the restless pulse of worry,
finding sustenance in the very chaos
that frayed its edges.”
Nyx Thorn, VERSES OF THE BROKEN: Echoes From A Fractured Mind

“What is my identity, even? What the fuck is that? How would I know? I've pretended to be other people my whole life, my whole childhood and adolescence and young adulthood. The years that you're supposed to spend finding yourself, I was spending pretending to be other people.”
Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died

“If we look again at these four patterns—alternation between victim and victimizer roles, identification with the aggressor and subsequent guilt, self-blame, and the seeking of object contact through perverse or violent means—we see that each is based on a psychological contradiction. It is intolerable to live life as a victim: one is weak and powerless. But it is equally intolerable to live life as the perpetrator, for then one deserves all manner of punishment. It is intolerable to be completely alone and unconnected. But it is equally intolerable to seek relationship through perversion or violence. It is intolerable to be a passive and helpless victim. But it is painful to escape from this helplessness by believing that you caused and deserved abuse. The escape from passivity is achieved by feeling inescapably bad inside. The abused child struggles, then, with what truly are dilemmas, both of logic and of life.”
Stephen Prior, Object Relations in Severe Trauma: Psychotherapy of the Sexually Abused Child

Werley Nortreus
“No child should be mistreated by anyone, no matter their race, color, religion, or situation.”
Werley Nortreus

Mohammed Zaki Ansari
“childhood is not for sell, children are not content”
Mohammed Zaki Ansari, The Silent Crisis

Mohammed Zaki Ansari
“childhood is not for sell, children are not content, stop using your children for like, share, and viral,”
Mohammed Zaki Ansari, The Silent Crisis

Roxanna Asgarian
“Unlike kids in family homes, kids in foster care today rely on a separate state agency, Residential Child Care Investigations, to look into reports of suspected abuse or neglect. That agency has a tendency to downgrade abuse reports without ever investigating them. During four months in 2019, the agency ruled out nearly half of the more than nine hundred abuse reports it received- with no investigation whatsoever.”
Roxanna Asgarian, We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America

“You are never too far gone, not even in the Tidal Waves.”
Kaylin Wingfield, Into The Ocean

Catherine Leroux
“With men, Mathilda knew instinctively where to aim: in the exact same spot they used to destroy little girls.”
Catherine Leroux, The Future

Karl Schembri
“Mill-postijiet kollha li setgħu bagħtuk, skola għażlu. Mank dar tal-anzjani. Mank iċ-ċimiterju, għalkemm ma nafx jeċitawkx il-mejtin ukoll. Xi tgħidli, Mons.? Jew it-tfal biss? Il-mejtin orrajt? Ma tmisshomx? Tħallihom bi kwiethom? Ma tħobbhomx l-iġsma bierda jiddekomponu bil-mod il-mod? Tippreferi l-ġilda tarija tat-tfal taħt l-età? Ftehemna. Allura ngħid jien ma setax bagħtek iċ-ċimiterju, l-Arċisqof, u b’hekk kien jiskansa ma nafx kemm-il traġedja ma’ għexieren ta’ tfal li kellhom jgħaddu minn taħt idejk?”
Karl Schembri, Eħlisna mid-deni

Abhijit Naskar
“Bible is the downfall of Jesus, catholic church is the original sin, it's the british empire of organized religion, with Uncle Sam as the ideal successor to both cartels.”
Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

Abhijit Naskar
“Bible is the most hypocritical scripture on earth, not because it doesn't contain any good, it contains just as much good as the next scripture, but no other scripture except the bible has an industrial religious complex behind it committing despicable crimes, either proudly in the name of god, or behind closed doors, to a scale unsurpassed by any other religious clergy.”
Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

Abhijit Naskar
“One of the greatest humans in history ended up being the unintended founder of the world's most wanted crime syndicate - Bible is the downfall of Jesus, catholic church is the original sin, it's the british empire of organized religion, with Uncle Sam as the ideal successor to both cartels.”
Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

Abhijit Naskar
“No religion is innocent, Islam has its skeletons, Hinduism has its skeletons, Judaism has a countryful, even Buddhism has a few, but compared to all the skeletons of all the organized religions, the Catholic church is built with human bones as framework, and corpses as edifice, and a huge chunk of them belonged to children.”
Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

Abhijit Naskar
“Bible is the downfall of Jesus, catholic church is the original sin. No other religion has systematically burnt mountains upon mountains of human literature, to hawk its scripture as the one true word of god.

No religion is innocent, Islam has its skeletons, Hinduism has its skeletons, Judaism has a countryful, even Buddhism has a few, but compared to all the skeletons of all the organized religions, the Catholic church is built with human bones as framework, and corpses as edifice, and a huge chunk of them belonged to children.”
Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“I get a lot of questions, asking about vitamin K shot,
so let's talk about the vitamin K shot, shall we?

Most parents have no idea why babies are born with low vitamin K.
And it's not a flaw in the design
it's part of the design they never explain to you.

Babies are born with low vitamin K for a reason,
and a very good one at that.
At birth, their cord blood is loaded with stem cells
that rush to any damaged areas from labor.

If newborns had high vitamin K levels at birth
that stem cell rich cord blood
wouldn't migrate the same way.

That's why delayed cord-clamping is so crucial.
When you clamp immediately,
you steal up to a third of the baby's blood volume
and the stem cells meant for healing.

Meanwhile, colostrum,
that liquid gold a mother produces immediately after birth,
has way higher vitamin K than mature breast milk.
Again, not a mistake, not a coinkydinky doodle,
it's how God designed the system.

But instead of honoring that system,
the hospital jumps straight to a synthetic vitamin K injection.
Before the cord is done transferring,
before the baby is even five minutes old.

And they never mention the oral option
that bypasses the injection completely
and all of the poison in the shot.

Poison like polysorbate 80
which opens the blood-brain barrier,
which is not a good thing.

Propylene glycol
which is an industrial solvent used in...
ready for this? Antifreeze!

Castor oil derivatives.

Benzyl alcohol
which is linked to gasping syndrome in newborns.

And in some formulations,
if you are unlucky enough,
their favorite poison: aluminum.

All injected into a brand-new immune system
within minutes of life.

It's insane, guys.
This isn't protective.
This is interference
with long-term consequences
they never talk about.

If you want the real information,
the real history, the real ingredients,
and the confidence to navigate newborn decisions
like vitamin K, vaccines, antibiotics,
fevers, and the entire pediatric gauntlet,
join my Skool community: The Healthy Truth”
Matty Denz

Luz Vieira da Silva
“She buried her face in the pillow and lost herself for a moment in the boundless longing for a life she felt slipping through her fingers like a handful of sea. She wished to take refuge beneath the sheets and curl into herself, mimicking a return to the serene waters of creation.”
Luz Vieira da Silva