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“An animal has to die and the best we can do is ensure the animal has a good life, and a swift, painless death.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Burning Girls

“Its tough being a carer. You have to put your own life on hold. It isolates you from people, makes it impossible to hold down a job.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Burning Girls

“Some afflictions you can see. But depression is a crippling illness of the mind that twists the person you love into someone you don't even recognise.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Burning Girls

“I want to tell her that we are born a blank canvas. That murderers, rapists and paedophiles are products of their environment rather than some darkness of the soul. And yet, I have visited many offenders in prison. Some are victims of terrible circumstances and horrific upbringings. A pattern of abuse repeating again and again. But others? Others come from good homes with loving parents and yet they still choose to kill, torture and maim.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Burning Girls

“Do you believe in evil? Can someone be born bad? Nature versus nurture. And if so, can they change? Or is the best they can ever hope for to deny their nature, hide the darkness inside, try and fit in, act just like anyone else?”
― C.J. Tudor, The Burning Girls

“Just an unforseeable tragedy. All tradgedies are. That's what makes them so hard to bear. The acceptance that life is random and often cruel. We seek to attribute blame. We cannot accept that things happen without reason. That not everything is within our control. We make ourselves small gods of our own universe without any God's mercy, wisdom, or grace.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Burning Girls

“Guilt is a little like grief. A cancer of the soul. They both hollow you out from the inside. But while you can learn to live with grief, guilt only grows as the years go by, spreading its tumourous tentacles.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Burning Girls

“The pain might get less sharp, less insistent. But it will always be there, until eventually he won't remember what life was like without it.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Burning Girls

“You want to believe the world is black and white. But, as an adult, you realise that most people exist in the grey area in between. All stuck in the middle and bumbling through.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Burning Girls

“People are made to feel guilty for 'living a lie', but who hasn't hidden parts of themselves from those they love? Because we don't want to hurt them. Because we don't want to see the disappointment in their eyes. We talk about love being unconditional, but very few of us ever want to put that to the test.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Burning Girls

“It's more frustration than fear. He's still aware enough to understand that his body is failing around him, becoming a prison of flesh and blood. He's trapped within himself. Helpless.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Burning Girls

“I think again how unprepared we are for illness and old age. How we trundle towards it unthinkingly, like lemmings towards the end of the cliff. The tiny humans we coo over at the start of their lives, we shudder to look upon at the end.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Burning Girls

“But I can't tell her why the thought of her and boys fills me with dread. How there are predatory males everywhere. How it doesn't matter if you are clever, eloquence, kind, talented - a man can still use his physical strength to take all of that from you, degrade you, abuse you and turn you into a victim.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Burning Girls

“But sometimes you meet a child who isn't just suffering the usual teenage angst. It isn't there background, their upbringing. They're simply put together wrong. You can't fix it.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Burning Girls

“People font like to stare at a cripple. They're embarrassed. All they feel is pity. (...) You can get away with a lot that way.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Burning Girls

“First love is a powerful thing, especially when it never has a change to grow old, to disappoint or become dull.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Burning Girls

“I don't think that cruelty is inevitable. It's a choice, nurtured by parents and environments.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Burning Girls

“When you get to my age, you understand there are more unanswered and in life than not. The best you can hope for is a resolution you can live with.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Burning Girls

“(...)  she could kind of get on with the idea that we leave imprints upon the world, a bit like a photographic image. A moment captured in time by a combination of chemicals and conditions.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Burning Girls

“I just find that 'tradition' is often used to defend things we'd otherwise rightly condemn.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Burning Girls

“Everything is kind of disposable these days. There's no appreciation of things ... no anticipation.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Burning Girls

“Teenagers are like sand. The tighter you try and hold onto them, the more the slip through your fingers.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Burning Girls

“Why do we hate our girls so much that history echoes with their screams and the earth is pitted with their unmarked graves?”
― C.J. Tudor, The Burning Girls

“Tomorrow is not guaranteed. Each day is a gift so use it wisely.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Burning Girls

“Sometimes you're the predator. Sometimes the prey. Just depends on the perspective.”
― C.J. Tudor

“(...) people kill for all kinds of reasons. Some we can comprehend. Some we can't.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Burning Girls

“Controlling anger is not weakness. It's strength.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Burning Girls

“I'm content - and that's all most of us can hopefully for, don't you think?”
― C.J. Tudor, The Burning Girls

“We all have our hiding places. Not just physical ones. Places deep inside where we put away the things we don't want others to see.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Burning Girls

“I believe that evil exists. In the hearts of all men and women.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Burning Girls