The Less People Know About Us Quotes

“Knowledge, I’ve found, will not betray you the way that people will.”
― Axton Betz-Hamilton, The Less People Know About Us: A Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity

“I had learned that my mother would do just about anything to contend with the perceived slights of the world. She would even cause me pain.”
― Axton Betz-Hamilton, The Less People Know About Us: A Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity

“I couldn’t understand why it mattered what I looked like on the outside if on the inside I felt so profoundly shitty.”
― Axton Betz-Hamilton, The Less People Know About Us: A Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity

“Our house was built in 1952, so my closet wasn’t exactly roomy. I had hidden there before, when I was home alone during the summers. I parted my dress shirts and spun my body around, lowering my back against the wall. As my eyes adjusted to the dark, I felt around for shoeboxes, stuffed animals—anything to conceal my feet and legs. And then I listened. I could hear the murmur of conversation; I could hear surprise, then outrage infusing my father’s muffles. I closed my eyes tightly and pressed my forehead to my knees. Please, I thought, please make this stop. And then it did stop. The conversation was done and I heard a car door slam, an engine start. I pushed my way through the tower of plush things and boxes, half crawling until I hit the hallway. “They were here to arrest you, Pam!” My father’s voice was as angry as I had heard it. “Check deception. Bad checks at the Portland Walmart.” That was impossible. Mom thought we were too good to be Walmart shoppers and often said as much, while lamenting there was nowhere else in Portland to buy clothes or household stuff.”
― Axton Betz-Hamilton, The Less People Know About Us: A Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity

“Unlike normal parents, psychopaths do not encourage independence or self-confidence in their children. Instead, they work to undermine the child’s self-esteem, making derogatory comments about their skills or appearance. Any encouragement that a psychopath might offer is for their own ends and they will be the first to take credit for their child’s achievement.”
― Axton Betz-Hamilton, The Less People Know About Us: A Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity

“Motherly support to so many people, but why not me?”
― Axton Betz-Hamilton, The Less People Know About Us: A Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity

“If I knew one thing about my dad, it was that he would be a good assistant nothing. Dad was the boss, through and through.”
― Axton Betz-Hamilton, The Less People Know About Us: A Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity

“Unlike normal parents, psychopaths do not encourage independence or self-confidence in their children. Instead, they work to undermine the child’s self-esteem, making derogatory comments about their skills or appearance. Any encouragement that a psychopath might offer is for their own ends and they will be the first to take credit for their child’s achievement. The last photo I have of my mother before she was diagnosed with cancer is the one I brought to her hospital room in Indianapolis in which she and my father are standing at my side as I proudly hold up an award for my research in childhood identity theft—work that was born from the decades of paranoia, fear, and financial ruin that she caused. In it, my mother is so happy that she appears to be laughing.”
― Axton Betz-Hamilton, The Less People Know About Us: A Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity

“Unlike normal parents, psychopaths do not encourage independence or self-confidence in their children. Instead, they work to undermine the child’s self-esteem, making derogatory comments about their skills or appearance. Any encouragement that a psychopath might offer is for their own ends and they will be the first to take credit for their child’s achievement. The last photo I have of my mother before she was diagnosed with cancer is the one I brought to her hospital room in Indianapolis in which she and my father are standing at my side as I proudly hold up an award for my research in childhood identity theft—work that was born from the decades of paranoia, fear, and financial ruin that she caused.”
― Axton Betz-Hamilton, The Less People Know About Us: A Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity

“Grief waited like horses locked in a starting gate.”
― Axton Betz-Hamilton, The Less People Know About Us: A Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity