The Body Reader Quotes

“I wonder how much of a person is simply fabricated by others,” she said. “And think about this: None of us see the same person in the exact same way. We bring ourselves into the equation. So an individual is never really an individual.” “This might be a little too deep for a hangover. Are you saying we’re not only a product of our environment; we’re also informed by accurate and inaccurate observations by others? That makes my head hurt even more.” “One thing I know, before my capture I saw myself through everybody else’s eyes, if that makes any sense. Every single person I engaged with throughout the day. I read their reaction to me and saw what they saw, accurate or inaccurate. That hasn’t happened since my escape. I don’t know if this new me is normal or abnormal, but that skewed reflection no longer exists. It should feel good, but it’s like something is gone.” You become the person he sees.”
― Anne Frasier, The Body Reader

“Maybe that’s what coffee shops sold. The idea that everything was okay, at least here, in this moment.”
― Anne Frasier, The Body Reader

“I wonder why we always feel disdain for our old selves,” Uriah said. “We should feel thankful. We should appreciate the people we used to be rather than being ashamed of them.”
― Anne Frasier, The Body Reader

“I wonder why we always feel disdain for our old selves...We should feel thankful. We should appreciate the people we used to be rather than being ashamed of them.”
― Anne Frasier, The Body Reader

“I wonder how much of a person is simply fabricated by others,” she said. “And think about this: None of us see the same person in the exact same way. We bring ourselves into the equation. So an individual is never really an individual.”
― Anne Frasier, The Body Reader

“the brain often rejected logic in favor of desire. “Have”
― Anne Frasier, The Body Reader

“There have always been evil people,” she said as they slid into a booth that afforded them some privacy. “There will always be evil people. That will never change. How you fight them, if you fight them, is key.”
― Anne Frasier, The Body Reader

“I didn’t realize I was seeing something amazing for the first and last time. And I’m saying that those things, those random, crazy surprises that have nothing to do with life decisions or your past or your future, might be worth sticking around for.”
― Anne Frasier, The Body Reader

“When she tried to speak, her voice scratchy and unfamiliar and hollow, he’d smack her across the face.”
― Anne Frasier, The Body Reader

“was the same day she quit thinking about the world beyond the windowless cell. That world no longer existed. Not for her. Now there were just the plates of food that came at uneven intervals,”
― Anne Frasier, The Body Reader

“The two of them had spent the afternoon in a futile attempt to locate the house where she’d been held captive. An hour into the search Uriah realized cruising up and down streets in hopes of spotting something that looked familiar was a waste of time. She didn’t have a clue. And how could she? The darkness, combined with her physical and mental state . . . He wasn’t sure he would have taken note of his surroundings under those circumstances. Now she sat across from his desk expecting him to turn over the files on every case she’d been working at the time of her abduction.”
― Anne Frasier, The Body Reader

“Uriah said. “We should feel thankful. We should appreciate the people we used to be rather than being ashamed of them.”
― Anne Frasier, The Body Reader

“And think about this: None of us see the same person in the exact same way. We bring ourselves into the equation. So an individual is never really an individual.”
― Anne Frasier, The Body Reader

“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. Those”
― Anne Frasier, The Body Reader

“I’m not someone who wakes up very fast. Explorer Roald Amundsen called it morning peevishness.”
― Anne Frasier, The Body Reader

“It’s not about you. Or me. She’s doing what she has to do to protect herself.”
― Anne Frasier, The Body Reader

“She’d been broken, and somehow, on her own, she’d put herself together again. And this new person was both weaker and stronger than the old one.”
― Anne Frasier, The Body Reader

“She now understood how easy it was for a person to adapt. Whatever was thrown at her, she made a mental adjustment. No matter how unbearable and how impossible a situation, her brain learned to accept it as normal. She’d”
― Anne Frasier, The Body Reader

“And when everything was boiled down, maybe she had nothing left to fear. Maybe that’s what really set her apart from everyone else. Her fearlessness born of ambivalence, not bravery, because she’d lived through some of the darkest stuff a person could live through.”
― Anne Frasier, The Body Reader

“Once it was out there, 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.”
― Anne Frasier, The Body Reader

“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.”
― Anne Frasier, The Body Reader

“A world within a world.”
― Anne Frasier, The Body Reader

“basement, cranked open a faucet, and aimed the nozzle at her naked body, blasting her with ice-cold water. Even then she didn’t scream. She had no scream left in her. “You’re disgusting.” She supposed”
― Anne Frasier, The Body Reader

“I can’t describe it, but it’s bizarre in a good way. With all of those events, I didn’t realize I was seeing something amazing for the first and last time. And I’m saying that those things, those random, crazy surprises that have nothing to do with life decisions or your past or your future, might be worth sticking around for.” Car”
― Anne Frasier, The Body Reader

“He’d been a good man, a sensitive man. She remembered that about him. “How long did you wait for me?”
― Anne Frasier, The Body Reader

“She could pull up this dream because she’d had it so many times. Almost every day she’d played it like a movie in her head, often with slight variations, but basically the same.”
― Anne Frasier, The Body Reader

“I have a home. That’s where I’m going.”
― Anne Frasier, The Body Reader

“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.”
― Anne Frasier, The Body Reader

“Once it was out there, 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. Ashby”
― Anne Frasier, The Body Reader

“Once you gave up and accepted your fate, existence became tolerable because every day wasn’t a reset of a nightmare that wouldn’t end. In”
― Anne Frasier, The Body Reader