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21 " The ego of a narcissist survives off the fuel from various things, work is only one, but a vital one for an empty ego. "
― Sara Niles , Torn From the Inside Out
22 " Another reason abusers don’t want to give up the ‘power’ is that they don’t want to give up the power. "
23 " To The Veterans of the United States of AmericaThank you, for the cost you paid for our freedom, thank you for the freedom to live in safety and pursue happiness, for freedom of speech (thus my book), and for all the freedoms that we daily take for granted. "
24 " 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. "
25 " 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. "
26 " 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. "
27 " 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. "
28 " 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 "
29 " Asking WHY is the beginning of change, but finding the answers and putting them to work is the essence of it. "
30 " It is a common fact that passion is inspired in us by pain, and the act of enduring and overcoming it "
31 " 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 "
32 " Thunder rattled the windowpanes two stories high, and lightning split the sky; it was as if the whole world was in turmoil that night. "
33 " My future would become as uncertain and unstable as a howling wind in a wasteland. "