Sharlto Copley Quotes

But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.

The first cut is the deepest.

Stuff happens when you are a kid; it scars you inside for life.

Love and pain become one in the same in the eyes of a wounded child.

I had trained myself not to go to the bathroom throughout my elementary and junior high school years because I was bullied. And you don't understand why you're being bullied, so you just suppress it.

They say that abandonment is a wound that never heals. I say only that an abandoned child never forgets.

My childhood was so traumatic.

An abused childhood affects the entire life... It affects every facet of the life.

But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes. The heart of a hurt child can shrink so that forever afterward it is hard and pitted as the seed of a peach. Or again, the heart of such a child may fester and swell until it is a misery to carry within the body, easily chafed and hurt by the most ordinary things.

Folks working late, I had a babysitter. I ain't about to sit here and name her. I was almost 8 when she came in late, woke me up with a game to play. Did a few things that it's hard to say. Told me to keep that secret safe. I'm trying to act like it ain't real. Had my innocence just stripped from me, and I still don't know how to feel.

But I didn't understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.

I was badly bullied when I was in the seventh grade - relentlessly, mercilessly - by a group of 12-year-old girls. And it left me with a determination that no matter what, I had to throw my shoulders back, stick out my chin, and project a sense that no one and nothing could hurt me. That turned out to be a life-changing mistake.

For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.

I have irrational fears, and they all go back to losing my father as a kid. I've never gotten over it.

I called my mother up and I said, 'You know, I've been to the best doctors in the world and I've spent almost half a million dollars and they're telling me I have symptoms of a P.O.W. and all I did was grow up in your home.'

Sometimes I think we're exposed to things we shouldn't be exposed to too early. I think that sets the tone to a person's whole life. Trauma.

I think that's very sad, that I haven't allowed my heart to be broken. I have broken a few.

I feel like I died as a child.

I was 11 when I was molested. It was like a nuclear explosion going off in my life, destroying everything.

I lost my mother when I was very young, and my father when I was in college.

I think anybody who has been abused as a kid - and I was abused as a kid, by various people - will say it's irrational because violence is irrational.

I was a disaster child. I remember I make very often my mother cry.

The first thing you should know about me is when I was three years old my mother left me and my father. And that was traumatic obviously for my father - he suffered a nervous breakdown at that time in his life.

I don't think my parents liked me. They put a live teddy bear in my crib.

The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television.