Markus Zusak Quotes

When he beat my mother it made me so mad.

It's amazing how words can do that, just shred your insides apart. Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me - such bullshit.

Words don't hurt you." Which is one of the hugest criminal lies perpetrated by adults against children in this world. Because words hurt more than any physical pain.

I don't think anybody should ever touch anybody in anger, ever.

My sister used to say I had a frail chest and she 'd beat me up all the time.

I want to say that nobody accuses their parents of abusing them without justification to do that. I didn't just make it up. A lot of things were true and abusive and horrible things that happened to me that my father did.

You think about child abuse and you think of a father viciously attacking a daughter or a son, but in my family it was my mother. My mother, I would say, was a... very brutal disciplinarian.

Training with Bela and Marta Karolyi took the joy out of the Olympics for me. I look back and feel there was a lot of verbal and physical abuse. For years, I felt it was my problem.

There was mental and physical abuse in my family.

She'd hit me before but never over and over and over and over into the head.

Every time I wake up, I see myself like somebody beat me up.

The stroke of the whip maketh marks in the flesh: but the stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones.

My parents used to fight a lot, and I think they fought a lot at night, and they would turn the television up to hide the sound of their fighting.

I came from a dysfunctional family - very dysfunctional. And my father used to find great humor in throwing me down the stairs.

Assault in any form is never OK, and I want to be very clear on that.

I can't have my family in my life because they are abusive, and I don't have control over that. There is an abusive culture in my family, and I have to turn away from it.

Since I was probably eight years old, just about everyday, all the way until I was 14 or 15 years old, just about everyday my mom and my stepdad would roll around in the living room fighting.

I hate when people come out after a fight and they talk about injuries.

I don't put my hands on women.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can make me think I deserved it.

No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.

Physically abusive and verbally abuse marriages are very, very difficult situations. I fully understand people in those kinds of marriages who think there is no hope. I also know that the advice that is given by most people is simply... get out of there as fast as you can.

Sticks and stones may break your bones but words can hurt like hell.

It's still hard for me to talk about the day I visited a shelter for children who were victims of a domestic-violence household. The kinds of abuse they had suffered, and what it had done to them physically and emotionally ?- I don't have words for what I saw. This has to stop.

Sticks and stones can break your bones, but names can kill you.