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Stained QUOTES

Stained QUOTES

1 " 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 , Stained

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

― Cheryl Rainfield , Stained

3 " I hate my body Hate what it remembers. Hate what it let him do. "

― Cheryl Rainfield , Stained

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

― Cheryl Rainfield , Stained

5 " When something that’s a part of you causes you so much pain–pain others inflict–you obsess about it. "

― Cheryl Rainfield , Stained

6 " And I'm still alive. That's what I have to focus on. Because I want to live. Even now I can't let myself give up. And that's something I didn't know about myself before - that I have such dogged determination and strength. That I can be completely focused on a goal and work long past what I thought my endurance was, when I have to. "

― Cheryl Rainfield , Stained

7 " If I don’t do what feels right to me, what I need and want to do, then am I really living? "

― Cheryl Rainfield , Stained

8 " I was focused before - obsessed, really - with the appearance of perfection. But what did that ever bring me but pain? Pain and not seeing people for who they really are. If I ever get out of here, I'll look at people differently. I'll look for their true selves beneath the mask of their bodies. I'll look at soul. "

― Cheryl Rainfield , Stained

9 " 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 , Stained

10 " 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 , Stained

11 " 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 , Stained