The Body Reader (Detective Jude Fontaine Mysteries, #1)

by Anne Frasier

once the facts were hung on the line for the world to see, that abuse robbed the victim of dignity and the victim suffered twice. Once at the hands of the abuser, and once at the hands of the world.

Captives learned the art of no reaction in order to remove the cause and effect of torture, the joy experienced by the torturer.

wondered if anybody ever talked about how the brain made staying okay. How the brain accepted the abuse and made it okay.

Turn the darkness into light.

So you found yourself needing to go back there to touch the place, see the place. Not to reassure yourself that it was real and that it had occurred, but to observe it from the distance of a safe mind, to marvel that this thing happened to you and you survived.

“It’s kind of unnerving to think about how we’re shaped by the darkness in our lives,”

Some philosopher said the darkest place you ever live will be etched forever in your soul and you will look back on those days with a twisted sort of fondness.