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“My family is hemorrhaging shame.”
― Ayura Ayira, Good Girls Die

“Never venture near the toxic family war zone without your security detail of angels, spirit guides, and ancestors by your side.”
― Anthon St. Maarten

“In normal families love flows from parents to their kids. But that’s not how it felt in my family. As kids we were the ones who did the loving. Swallowing our needs came at a psychological cost. The river is not meant to flow up the mountain.”
― Ruth Clare, Enemy: A True Story of Courage, Childhood Trauma and the Cost of War

“I closed my eyes and wished the way I felt in that moment, lucky and loved, could last forever.”
― Ruth Clare, Enemy: A True Story of Courage, Childhood Trauma and the Cost of War

“I was a little girl with big dreams. I wanted to be a star like Madonna, Dolly Parton, or Whitney Houston. I had simpler dreams, too, dreams that seemed even harder to achieve and that felt too ambitious to say out loud: I want my dad to stop drinking. I want my mom to stop yelling. I want everyone to be okay.”
― Britney Spears, The Woman in Me

“Her definition of love was obligation and guilt.”
― David Crow, The Pale-Faced Lie

“Never venture near the toxic family war zone without your security detail of angels, spirit guides and ancestors by your side.”
― Anthon St. Maarten

“Always in the back of my mind a question burned. Was this it? Was this the moment I handed down the legacy and scarred them for life?”
― Ruth Clare, Enemy: A True Story of Courage, Childhood Trauma and the Cost of War

“He seemed oblivious to the heat, though the back of his yellow t-shirt was darkened with sweat. This was how he wanted us to be. No mistakes. No fumbles. No feeling.”
― Ruth Clare, Enemy: A True Story of Courage, Childhood Trauma and the Cost of War

“Sometimes I wished I could just hate Dad. But mostly it felt easier to believe I hated him rather
than face up to the fact that, despite everything, I had spent my life loving him, longing for him,
while he had barely even noticed I was alive.”
― Ruth Clare, Enemy: A True Story of Courage, Childhood Trauma and the Cost of War

“If all the bruises and pain Dad had marked me with over the years formed a permanent stain,
people like Moustache Man might shut the hell up about what a great father I had.”
― Ruth Clare, Enemy: A True Story of Courage, Childhood Trauma and the Cost of War

“Though I was sure she’d never noticed it, I had spent my whole life doing what I could to protect her. I didn’t know if she could survive without me. I didn’t know who I would be if she no longer needed me to stand guard.”
― Ruth Clare, Enemy: A True Story of Courage, Childhood Trauma and the Cost of War

“It felt like someone had waved a magic wand over my life, wiping out the mother I had known
before. I wasn’t sure which one was the dream � the person she had been when Dad was living
with us, or the one she was now.”
― Ruth Clare, Enemy: A True Story of Courage, Childhood Trauma and the Cost of War

“He drained her of self worth: death by a thousand cuts. Snide little comments, rolling eyes and always that tone in his voice, the one that told her how worthless she was.”
― Ruth Clare, Enemy: A True Story of Courage, Childhood Trauma and the Cost of War

“I felt my throat ache and knew it was her sadness I swallowed down”
― Ruth Clare, Enemy: A True Story of Courage, Childhood Trauma and the Cost of War

“I told myself fear would not control me and searched for ways to prove to myself I was the one who held the power.”
― Ruth Clare

“People could see whatever they wanted to see on the outside, but if they scratched the surface they would find I too pulsed with dangerous power. This was my secret. This was my weapon. This was what would get me through.”
― Ruth Clare, Enemy: A True Story of Courage, Childhood Trauma and the Cost of War

“Every good trait has its shadow side.”
― Ruth Clare, Enemy: A True Story of Courage, Childhood Trauma and the Cost of War

“It’s wonderful when someone else sees you, the real you but â€� and this maybe the most profound thing I’ve ever thought or said â€� maybe the important thing is seeing yourself.”
― David Levithan & Jennifer Niven

“Whenever you’re in the worst place, there is always a better place.”
― David Levithan & Jennifer Niven, Take Me With You When You Go

“Which is the funny thing about families; no matter how much cake you have, someone will always feel starved.”
― Jillian Medoff, When We Were Bright And Beautiful

“You are indeed teaching me about kinds of love I did not know. It is like looking into a deep pit. I'm not sure whether I like your kind better than hatred. Oh, Orual- to take my love for you, because you know
it goes down to my very roots and cannot be diminished by any other newer love, and then to make of it a tool, a weapon, a thing of policy and mastery, an instrument of torture- I begin to think I never knew you. Whatever comes after, something that was between us dies here.”
― C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces

“I wish I could run free with the horses and never again be the daughter of dropped miracles.”
― Tiffany McDaniel, On the Savage Side