The Narcissist's Daughter Quotes

“had my moment and I carried on, and picked up when I had left off. This was how I knew I have come a long way in my healing journey. It’s not about not having a breakdown, it’s about how long it takes you to get back up after. And I was getting up a lot quicker than I would have at the beginning of this journey.”
― Kylie B, The Narcissist's Daughter : From Breakdown to Breakthrough

“As much as it burned me inside to miss my sister’s big day, I had to put my mental health first, and there was no way I was about to undo my hard work for anything. And that is exactly what I did from that point forward. My mental health was the most important thing to me. If I wasn’t feeling how something was making me feel, I let it go, whether it was people, jobs, places. I stopped entertaining things that were draining me.”
― Kylie B, The Narcissist's Daughter : From Breakdown to Breakthrough

“I am going to be the strong sister he is going to one day need, then I need to stay away. I just hoped he doesn’t hate me for it, but I have faith that when he’s older and understands better he will see why I stayed away.”
― Kylie B, The Narcissist's Daughter : From Breakdown to Breakthrough

“Narcissists love to lie too! The majority of things that came out of my mother’s mouth were lies. Her lies were more obvious to me, but to other people she would pre-empt her lies, so that she can’t be caught out.”
― Kylie B, The Narcissist's Daughter : From Breakdown to Breakthrough

“Narcissistic mothers have their “favourites.” My mother always preferred the boys. I realised from a very young age I became the scapegoat of the family; the one that always got the blame and she was always bending the truth to make me look like the bad guy to everyone else, like when she turned her affair on me, remember how she tried to turn everyone against me to cover up her lies.”
― Kylie B, The Narcissist's Daughter : From Breakdown to Breakthrough

“As a child, all this seemed innocent to me. It’s crazy what you realise when you begin to look back on things as an adult.”
― Kylie B, The Narcissist's Daughter : From Breakdown to Breakthrough

“I loved having a full house! It was like I craved interaction with other people. In a way, I still love a full house. The chaos almost comforts me.”
― Kylie B, The Narcissist's Daughter : From Breakdown to Breakthrough