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Tortured Quotes

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Kamand Kojouri
“Let my silence grow with noise
as pregnant mothers grow with life.
Let my silence permeate these walls
as sunlight permeates a home.

Let the silence rise from unwatered graves
and craters left by bombs.
Let the silence rise from empty bellies
and surge from broken hearts.

The silence of the hidden and forgotten.
The silence of the abused and tortured.
The silence of the persecuted and imprisoned.
The silence of the hanged and massacred.

Loud as all the sounds can be,
let my silence be loud
so the hungry may eat my words
and the poor may wear my words.

Loud as all the sounds can be,
let my silence be loud
so I may resurrect the dead
and give voice to the oppressed.

My silence speaks.”
Kamand Kojouri

Alyssa Cole
“Excuse me?”
The librarian looked up again.
“I need help now. I need to print this article and . . . do you have any books about dukes?”
The librarian’s eyes went wide and she rubbed her hands together with glee. “We have a fantastic romance section,” she said. “Do you need recommendations? How do you like your dukes? Grumpy? Tortured? Alpha, beta, or alpha in the streets, beta in the sheets?”
“Actually, I meant nonfiction,” Portia said glumly.
The librarian sighed. “Aye. Just a warning, love—the non-fic dukes are not nearly as fun.”
Alyssa Cole, A Duke by Default

Judith Lewis Herman
“...some patients resist the diagnosis of a post-traumatic disorder. They may feel stigmatized by any psychiatric diagnosis or wish to deny their condition out of a sense of pride. Some people feel that acknowledging psychological harm grants a moral victory to the perpetrator, in a way that acknowledging physical harm does not.”
Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

Holly Black
“I wonder if there's a limit to what I will let them do, if there is something that would make me fight back, even if it dooms me.

If there is, that makes me a fool.

But maybe if there isn't, that makes me a monster.”
Holly Black, The Wicked King

Nikita Dudani
“It is a torture to see people whom you don't like.”
Nikita Dudani

Donald Firesmith
“They prefer their meals alive and terrified, for fear is their favorite sauce.”
Donald G. Firesmith, Demons on the Dalton

Michael    Grant
“Hope is the best form of torture”
Michael Grant, Monster - tome 1

A.G. Howard
“Do something!” I shout.
Jeb finally looks my way. “Al, we’re trying.”
For the first time, I get a glimpse at his face. He looks just like the little boy in the pictures at his house. Lost, tortured, haunted. The only difference is the blood on his cheek and the labret glistening beneath his lip.”
A.G. Howard, Ensnared

Judith Lewis Herman
“Admitting the need for help may also compound the survivor's sense of defeat. The therapists Inger Agger and Soren Jensen, who work with political refugees, describe the case of K, a torture survivor with severe post-traumatic symptoms who adamantly insisted that he had no psychological problems: "K...did not understand why he was to talk with a therapist. His problems were medical: the reason why he did not sleep at night was due to the pain in his legs and feet. He was asked by the therapist...about his political background, and K told him that he was a Marxist and that he had read about Freud and he did not believe in any of that stuff: how could his pain go away by talking to a therapist?”
Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

“People don't make decisions within these sorts of groups. They try to avoid more torture. Then they are tortured into thinking they made a decision of their own free will.”
Wendy Hoffman, White Witch in a Black Robe: A True Story About Criminal Mind Control

Dorothea Lasky
“Why? Because a demon is after me
And he she it has been
Since the day I was born”
Dorothea Lasky, Rome: Poems

Vortigern Black
“Take comfort in the devil you know. It may be safer then the one you don't”
Vortigern Black, Tortured

Barbara Nickless
“I've killed people. I've tortured people. Sometimes under orders. Sometimes to stay alive. I need to be clear on this, Sydney. So you know who I am.”
Barbara Nickless, Ambush

Craig D. Lounsbrough
“We live with this tortured feeling that we must create that which in reality we have the privilege of finding.”
Craig D. Lounsbrough

Sarah J. Maas
“For a woman who had been tortured and tormented for months, I looked remarkably well.”
Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

“There's madness in the eyes and looks of people, tragedy is at stake whatever you do people will get mad at you”
Ben Jr Grey

Kristina Mahr
“You slipped a grenade inside my mouth when you kissed me goodbye and walked away with the pin between your teeth.

(There is nothing here to come back to.)”
Kristina Mahr