Libba Bray Quotes

My father would invite me sweetly to come and sit on a stool at his feet, and, as I let myself trustingly down, he would gently kick the seat from under me - and laugh.

I was a child, and my mother was psychotic. She loved me, but I didn't really feel I had a mother. And when you live with somebody who is paranoid and thinks you're trying to kill them all the time, you tend to feel a little betrayed.

I didn't have a good childhood growing up.

I was in a terrible mess in my childhood.

The little things that made up the fabric of the first six years of my life were suddenly ripped away, and I didn't have anyone around me who loved me. Not one single person.

I didn't have a childhood.

It's easy to be led astray when you're so broken. People take advantage of you.

Appalling things can happen to children. And even a happy childhood is filled with sadnesses.

My parents just neglected me, I wasn't abused or anything.

When you are abandoned by two parents as a baby - wow, that is something to live with.

People are always fascinated by infidelity because, in the end - whether we've had direct experience or not - there's part of you that knows there's absolutely no more piercing betrayal. People are undone by it.

I didn't have a childhood.

Even now I can't trust life. It did too many awful things to me as a kid.

Because I've been on the receiving end of infidelity, I know how much it hurts.

I hated my whole childhood, hated it, hated it, hated it. There was no place for me.

I lost my childhood. I didn't play football or video games. Or have birthdays or the love of a family.

I was always the one asking everybody else if they were O.K. I never talked about my problems. I didn't want to admit I had problems. I just let 'em build up. I didn't want anybody to know I was hurtin'.

It was hard to feel hated as a child.

There are injuries nobody's even around the guy, and the guy's getting hurt.

My father took my mother, me, and my brother from Sicily to New York. He got us one-way tickets but booked himself a return flight. He dumped us with my mother's parents, who had just arrived from Italy, and abandoned us. That was 1986. I didn't see or speak to him for another 12 years. That's cruel.

I felt abandoned at a young age. That's where most of my anger came from, I guess.

I remember when I was a kid I used to come home from Sunday School and my mother would get drunk and try to make pancakes

Once she had loved Prince Joffrey with all her heart, and admired and trusted her his mother, the queen. They had repaid that love and trust with her father's head. Sansa would never make that mistake again.

You have suffered grievously and I am truly sorry. I know that nothing can undo the wrong you have endured. Your trust has been betrayed and your dignity has been violated.

Bruises fade father, but the pain remains the same. And I still remember how you kept me so afraid.