Cheryl Rainfield Quotes

#1. I hate my body Hate what it remembers. Hate what it let him do.

Cheryl Rainfield

#2. If I want to get out of here, I have to be the one to save myself.

Cheryl Rainfield

#3. The whole point of Gen X was, and continues to be, a negation of being forced into Baby Boomerdom against one's will.

Douglas Coupland

#4. I know I'm not to blame for what he did. And I know, too, that I am strong inside
stronger than I ever realized.

Cheryl Rainfield

#5. Most people don't know that heartache smells like blueberries.

Stacey Lee

#6. Self-Injury Awareness Day is on March 1, worldwide.

Cheryl Rainfield

#7. I think you've got to get out whatever's hurting you through your art, so it doesn't twist you up inside.

Cheryl Rainfield

#8. You don't deserve the anger you're turning on yourself. Your abuser's the one who does.

Cheryl Rainfield

#9. Ignorance is not bliss. It is the kiss of death.

Suzy Kassem

#10. I linger on the flathouse roof, the moonlight is divine. But my heart is all aflutter like the washing on the line.

Nathalia Crane

#11. I know you're upset, I know you're scared, but don't walk away.

Cheryl Rainfield

#12. Other times, I look at my scars and see something else: a girl who was trying to cope with something horrible that she should never have had to live through at all. My scars show pain and suffering, but they also show my will to survive. They're part of my history that'll always be there.

Cheryl Rainfield

#13. You can see when someone's been hurt the way I was. It's obvious. Something changes in their eyes; pain becomes their center, even when they try to hide it.

Cheryl Rainfield

#14. If I don't do what feels right to me, what I need and want to do, then am I really living?

Cheryl Rainfield

#15. Over the long haul of life on this planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants.

Stewart Udall

#16. Like Americans, the Japanese have a silent mode, but in Japan it can be referred to as "manner mode" (Japanese Cell Phone Culture, n.d.).

Trevor Clinger

#17. I've never seen her defend herself the way she defends other people. It's like she thinks she doesn't deserve it, or maybe she thinks she doesn't need it.

Cheryl Rainfield

#18. When some people in the crowd act shocked or repulsed, Diamond calmly tells them her scars are part of her past, part of what made her who she is.

Cheryl Rainfield

#19. Faith stands and fear runs!

John Di Lemme

#20. I am a person. I do exist.

Aimee Alexander

#21. I should know better than anyone
you can't tell who a person is just from his looks.

Cheryl Rainfield

#22. The lack of human voices really gets to me. I never realized that we need to talk with other people just to know that we exist. That we matter. Loneliness is a howling, empty cavern inside of me that just keeps growing.

Cheryl Rainfield

#23. In Maybe I Will, Laurie Gray writes about important topics that teens need to talk about, including sexual assault, friendship, and alcoholism or self-destructive behaviors that result from trauma. Maybe I Will may help some teens know they're not alone.

Cheryl Rainfield

#24. If you love everyone without judging them, then you will never be able to find an enemy.

Debasish Mridha