Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

I felt like a piece of trash. I felt dirty and I felt used and I was disappointed.

I'm overwhelmed by shame that the people who had the responsibility to take care of the tender ones violated that trust and caused them great pain.

That's the thing about abuse - it can make the victim feel an overwhelming sense of shame, a shame so disabling that one suffers in silence.

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.

I was no Cherokee. I was no warrior. I was nobody special. I was just a girl, scared and angry. When I saw myself in Daddy Glen's eyes, I wanted to die. No, I wanted to be already dead, cold and gone. Everything felt hopeless. He looked at me and I was ashamed of myself. It was like sliding down an endless hole, seeing myself at the bottom, dirty, ragged, poor, stupid.

I’m not brave any more darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me.

The worst is knowing I can't tell anybody what's happening -or what's happened- to me. Not even my mom.

It's too late. I've seen things...I've lost things you can't understand.

The moment that I realized my name was going to be said in the same sentence as children and sex, that's really intense. That's something I knew from that very moment, whatever happens past that point, something's out there in the air that is really bad.

In the aftermath of a marriage, you feel helpless and hapless.

Bullies generally were bullied and are hurting inside much more than you could ever imagine.

I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.

Victims always feel alone and helpless.

To have all your life's work and to have them along the wall, it's like walking in with no clothes on. It's terrible.

I should be trading on the blood of my men.

My money was stolen from me. I was eventually stripped of the ability to make even the most basic decisions... my daily life became unbearable.

When you have a child who wants to take his own life and you feel powerless, nothing else in life matters.

I wasn't naive, but at the end of my Miss America year, when two different executives attacked me during what I thought were informational interviews about jobs, I was shocked. I didn't see it coming, and the worst thing about it was the shame I felt, as if I'd done something wrong.

Bullying made me feel insecure, alone, ugly, powerless, and hopeless at times.

When my mother told me they have to sell me, I couldn't breathe; I couldn't speak.

I feel I am a child that's lost its mother. I feel like a calf whose mother has gone off to slaughter.

The suffering of a loved one was in many ways worse than one's one suffering because it left one feeling so very helpless.

Looking at suicide—the sheer numbers, the pain leading up to it, and the suffering left behind—is harrowing. For every moment of exuberance in the science, or in the success of governments, there is a matching and terrible reality of the deaths themselves: the young deaths, the violent deaths, the unnecessary deaths

She tortured everybody around her, but only because she was more tortured than anyone.

It wasn't enough to be kidnapped, I had to be insulted too.