“Evidently, if support and care are devoted to an abused child at an early level of the occurrences, the long-lasting outcomes may be less cruel.”
Source: When Roses are Crushed
“Mostly, we have put on a brave face with a wide grin and went on with life, as best we could.”
Source: When Roses are Crushed
“You are powerful and fierce since you got out of all that was abominable.”
Source: When Roses are Crushed
“You are fearless and daring as you walk through the flame as you raise your voice against the abuser.”
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“You are unique, special and exceptional as you have made it.”
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“You throw your own options to be anyone you want to be, the choice is yours.”
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“Your voice, your past, your history, you can make a difference to the world.”
Source: When Roses are Crushed
“He caught a glimpse of that extraordinary faculty in man, that strange, altruistic, rare, and obstinate decency which will make writers or scientists maintain their truths at the risk of death. Eppur si muove, Galileo was to say; it moves all the same. They were to be in a position to burn him if he would go on with it, with his preposterous nonsense about the earth moving round the sun, but he was to continue with the sublime assertion because there was something which he valued more than himself. The Truth. To recognize and to acknowledge What Is. That was the thing which man could do, which his English could do, his beloved, his sleeping, his now defenceless English. They might be stupid, ferocious, unpolitical, almost hopeless. But here and there, oh so seldome, oh so rare, oh so glorious, there were those all the same who would face the rack, the executioner, and even utter extinction, in the cause of something greater than themselves. Truth, that strange thing, the jest of Pilate's. Many stupid young men had thought they were dying for it, and many would continue to die for it, perhaps for a thousand years. They did not have to be right about their truth, as Galileo was to be. It was enough that they, the few and martyred, should establish a greatness, a thing above the sum of all they ignorantly had.”
Source: The Book of Merlyn: The Unpublished Conclusion to The Once & Future King
“You possess the ability to hold your life because you are the true proprietor of your own life, no one gets to decide for you.”
Source: When Roses are Crushed
“You're capable of making your own decisions.”
Source: When Roses are Crushed