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The Way I Used to Be

Book by Amber Smith · 12 quotes · Rape, Alone, Disassociation

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“maar het enige wat ik zie, wat ik voel, wat ik hoor: zijn huid, zijn armen, zijn benen, zijn veel te sterke handen, zijn adem tegen mijn huid, spieren die zich spannen, botten die kraken, een lichaam dat breekt, ik die steeds zwakker wordt en vervaag. Dat allemaal - meer is er niet”

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“I don't know who I am right now. But I know who I'm not. And I like that.”

Truth Real Life Identity Crisis

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“I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what makes you happy,but it's not really like that, you know? It's not that simple.”

Truth Simple The Way I Used To Be

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“Maybe He'll get what he deserves. Maybe Not. Maybe I'll never find it in my heart to forgive him. And maybe there's nothing wrong with that,either. All those maybes swimming around my head make me think that "maybe" could just be another word for hope.”

Real Pain Forgiveness True To Life

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“But I'm not her anymore. I don't even want to be her anymore. That girl was so naive and stupid--the kind of girl who could let something like this happen to her.”

Anger Alone Moving On Rape

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“I'm so far gone now, sometimes I feel like maybe it's almost enough.”

Gone Rape Disassociation

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“This alternate reality here I'm not quite in my body, not quite in my mind, either--it's this place where all I do is think about one thing and one thing only.”

Alone Rape Disassociation

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“Only now I can’t remember, damn it, where the lies ended and I began. It’s all blurred. Everything suddenly seems to have become so messy, so gray, so undefined and terrifying. All I know is that things went terribly awry, this wasn’t the plan. The plan was to get better, to feel better, by any means. But I don’t feel better, I feel empty, empty and broken, still. And alone. More alone than ever before.”

Self Awareness Realization Remembrance Acknowledgement Anagnorisis

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“I shrug in response, but I don't think she even notices”

Alone Neglect Rape Need Help Ignored Children

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“There's a brief moment of silence for what we've lost. And in that moment, it ends. Finally. The past of us officially comes to an end.”

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“I'm scared. Really scared he's about to leave me. And more scared because I don't want him to.”

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“It was so long ago now, it practically never happened”

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