Andrew Vachss - Life Quotes

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We don't distinguish between the various forms of child abuse. Emotional abuse... is pretty much ignored. When someone spends their life being told, 'You're stupid, you're a disgrace, I should have aborted you, you ruined my life,' it scars them in ways that are almost impossible to describe with words. And yet, such a person describing their life would be told, 'Oh, you weren't an incest victim? Oh, you weren't burned with cigarettes? So, how abused were you really?

Andrew Vachss

He said when the Lord made people He made them all the same for starters. But life marks people. If you know the way, you can read them like maps.

Andrew Vachss

If love would die along with death, this life wouldn't be so hard.

Andrew Vachss