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41 " Thomas was the most loving, wonderful, and attentive husband that I could ever imagine on some days, and on others it was as if I married Lucifer himself. "
― Sara Niles , Torn From the Inside Out
42 " In America, it is reported by some sources that there were more domestic violence related murders in the home than the 58,000 Americans soldiers killed in the entire Vietnam War.We are in a state of domestic war, the battlefield is in the home. "
43 " In the process of my evolution, I became a victim of domestic war, an emotional casualty for a major portion of my life, entwined, entrapped and emotionally involved until I learned how to become free. Freedom has never been easily gained and has often come at high cost throughout history, but one thing I will always know is freedom is worth every fight, and all pain. "
― Sara Niles
44 " Nothing good was withheld from me, even moral guidance was provided as my uncle read to me nightly out of a King James red-letter edition Bible. “Them’s the Good Lord’s words in red,” he would say reverently. These lessons installed in me a sense of moral propriety and spiritual obligation that I would later misconstrue to my own detriment. The strength of character I gleaned from them would enable me to survive myself and all lesser foes. "
45 " The feelings Kera externalized, came from deep within, as though she both loved and hated herself, like she was trapped in a paradox that she could not find her way out of "
― Sara Niles , The Journey
46 " Thomas was growing into his realm of self-contained darkness, a cocoon that he did not initially choose for himself, but he had none-the-less, resigned himself to its lazy comforts. "
47 " Progress or lack of it, can only be judged by a measuring rod, and if the rod is placed low enough the standard will never threaten you "
48 " Asking WHY is the beginning of change, but finding the answers and putting them to work is the essence of it. "
49 " It is a common fact that passion is inspired in us by pain, and the act of enduring and overcoming it "
50 " Asking why, is the beginning of change, finding the answers and putting them to work is the essence of it.Epilogue of Torn From the Inside Out "
51 " I could see what was ahead of me, I knew what was behind me, so I welcomed whatever would come to us. "
52 " Thunder rattled the windowpanes two stories high, and lightning split the sky; it was as if the whole world was in turmoil that night. "
53 " My future would become as uncertain and unstable as a howling wind in a wasteland. "
54 " I knew that we as humans, were given the power to solve our own problems, and that we were given good sense and direction, but it was up to us to use it, and just as we were given two feet, it would be up to us to walk. "