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Over the last three years, she had only glimpsed him twice, but he remained exactly as he’d looked in her memories—and her nightmares.
He kept you off-balance, using your own weaknesses against you, twisting tenderness and affection into weapons wielded to control, to dominate.
She couldn’t trust anyone else with her fate. She’d learned that the hard way. The people who were supposed to care for you the most were the ones with the most power to hurt you.
She hated how they’d changed her, made her afraid to depend on anyone but herself, made her suspicious and distrustful of everyone and everything—like a beaten dog, wretched and cowering, always expecting the next blow.
Everyone’s out to use and abuse you. Trust no one but yourself. Survive at any cost.
“The fear won’t go away.” “Child, the fear never goes away,” Rosemarie had said gently. “You just have to do it anyway. Do it afraid.”
She could never get enough oxygen. It felt like drowning on dry land.
“Sometimes love twists into an even stronger hate.”
“There are people who endure horrific things. Things other people can’t even imagine. Some can break free and forge a different life. Some are broken, lifelong victims who never believe anything different than what they’ve been taught. Others see the truth, but are too hurt to do the hard work to fix themselves.”
“A person can endure a lifetime of suffering before they’re old enough to drive.”
the man’s eyes widened in surprise. Men were always surprised when they died, like it hadn’t happened to every human being throughout all of history.
You’re no good to anyone if you panic.
Dakota had already apologized more times in the last five minutes than in the last five years.
Every life is precious. Every life is a tragedy. That others are suffering doesn’t negate your own pain.”
Am I barking up the right tree?”
Other people only held power over your own mind when you gave it to them.
I’m good under pressure and learn fast. I know what to do: keep my finger off the trigger and don’t aim at anything I’m not prepared to kill,
