I vowed that I would never tell anyone of my shame. They say that when you kept a secret, it eats you up inside, but I felt it was better that way. I wanted to appear strong in front of my children and my family. I didn't want anybody to know. And I ...
The central attitudes driving the Victim are: Everybody has done me wrong, especially the women I’ve been involved with. Poor me. When you accuse me of being abusive, you are joining the parade of people who have been cruel and unfair to me. It pro...
Boys’ aggressiveness is increasingly being treated as a medical problem, particularly in schools, a trend that has led to the diagnosing and medicating of boys whose problem may really be that they have been traumatized and influenced by exposure t...
the wounded child inside many males is a boy who, when he first spoke his truths, was silenced by paternal sadism, by a patriarchal world that did not want him to claim his true feelings. The wounded child inside many females is a girl who was taught...
I have always felt that suicide was connected to communication. Not due to a lack of opportunity, but to an impossibility to communicate and be understood. It can be frustrating to try to share something with somebody, something important and real to...
Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you’ll be so close as to be living inside each other’s skins.
I'd say the depths of his stupidity have yet to be plumbed, and yours is comin' up fast on the inside turn.
Secrets press inside a person. They press the way water presses at a dam. The secrets and the water, they both want to get out.
The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing.
Cat hate reflects an ugly, stupid, loutish, bigoted spirit. There can be no compromise with this Ugly Spirit.
Because it's not muscles that make men strong. Secret do. The more secret you keep, the stronger you are on the inside.
As I lifted the ash dagger, something inside me fractured so completely that there would be no hope of ever repairing it.
Men walk through tragedy, quietly, calm and precise on the outside, tearing themselves to shreds inside.
Mommy do princesses seem at all like me? "look inside yourself and you'll see.
Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt hollow and empty and aching.
A cage stokes our emotions and imaginations, regardless of whether you are inside looking out, or outside looking in.
I saw the last piece of innocence unfurl inside of her. -Nick Plato (from the story Platonick)
No, it’s not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.
But death has taken root inside you and you know it will grow, like a cancer with a voice, from now until the day it consumes you whole.
You like playing with fire?” “Yes. It is my favorite element.” She extracted her arm from his grip and stepped inside the elevator
My intention was, only, ever to help you see the light shining brightly in front, and inside, of you.
