I Know Where You Live Quotes

“Release the poison that’s hurting me inside. When I’m doing it, I feel better. Really good. It’s like all the bad feelings just seep out. They’re just gone.”
― Gregg Olsen, I Know Where You Live

“Then, I thought that it made me feel better. It was a hurt that was real, not something in my head about being not enough. For my family. For boys later. Even for coming here.”
― Gregg Olsen, I Know Where You Live

“I can’t help wondering sometimes, what would he think when we made love if he knew what had happened to me when I was a girl? Would it change the way he touched me? Would he think twice about the intimacy between the two of us?”
― Gregg Olsen, I Know Where You Live

“People think the world has changed because of the “courage” it takes to speak out. They also think that saying it, posting it, screaming it out to the world changes something. For some, maybe. But there are still women everywhere—they are sitting on a bus, speaking in a boardroom, dropping their kids off at school—unable to say what was done to them and unable to let it go.”
― Gregg Olsen, I Know Where You Live

“If you don’t have the script, don’t know who to talk to, or what it really means, you freeze. You pray. You look the other way.”
― Gregg Olsen, I Know Where You Live

“Then, I thought that it made me feel better. It was a hurt that was real, not something in my head about being not enough”
― Gregg Olsen, I Know Where You Live

“It seems there are no do-overs for bad mothers.”
― Gregg Olsen, I Know Where You Live

“It isn’t Prada that the devil wears but a smile that belies the truth of his intent.”
― Gregg Olsen, I Know Where You Live

“The truth is surviving childhood trauma isn’t the same thing as living.”
― Gregg Olsen, I Know Where You Live

“I’ve never felt like this before. I’m a snake shedding my skin. A pupa hatching into a butterfly.”
― Gregg Olsen, I Know Where You Live

“Scraping away the dirt from a secret doesn’t always set you free. Sometimes it’s the very opposite.”
― Gregg Olsen, I Know Where You Live

“What if the worst thing you ever did was something you didn’t do?”
― Gregg Olsen, I Know Where You Live