Elle Fanning Quotes

I am, after all, a thriller writer. I routinely delve into the darkest chambers of the human heart. I've written about murder, kidnapping, depravity, horror, violence, and disfigurement.

These days, my subjects are murder and mayhem and other terrible things that happen to people - things that are even worse than cutting yourself shaving. And these are not the sorts of things you feel the need to experience before you write about them.

I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof.

I spent four days and four nights just covered in blood, falling in the water.

Family violence is a criminal act; perpetrators, while often former victims themselves, need to accept culpability.

I have been touched by extreme violence, and I have been robbed of the life I always wanted by someone who chose to do evil.

You know, what we do know is that there is a high frequency of violence in the home of those who bully.

I was an abused kid.

Even if a woman is abused a very long time ago, it comes out in her life in a negative way.

I got hit a lot. I'm glad I lived through it.

My daughters have grown up knowing all about my kidnapping and the case and what happened.

When someone was hitting me, or like sexually molesting me, it just seemed normal to continue to do that to myself.

The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

For me, my awakening came when I was kidnapped.

You only need a few people to effect a kidnapping.

Naturally, it is a terrible, despicable crime when, as in Munich, people are taken hostage, people are killed. But probing the motives of those responsible and showing that they are also individuals with families and have their own story does not excuse what they did.

I've been raped in Macy's window at high noon.

Violence is a commodity in the U. S. and the culture of violence is toxic.

I wonder why he shot me?.

Stalking is a cruel and incessant crime with often terrifying consequences. Victims can be tormented for years, left too scared to leave their homes and unnerved by the slightest unexpected sound.

I survived a terrorist attack and got stabbed another four times, literally stabbed in the heart, and somehow, I'm going to be 100 percent OK.

I got robbed once. A man pulled a gun on me and snatched my pocketbook in a car. I don't trust men that much any more.

The 'Horn 'OK' Pleassss' harassment incident and the mob attack there had sent me spiralling into a deep state of depression in 2008.

We're all painfully aware of how suddenly violence can occur, how crippling it is, and how survivors have to find a way back from that.

So many people have been abused. It's not rare; it's a very common human experience, and we survive.