Maxine (Booklover Catlady)

“How can you learn to heal if the past is a place you want to stay in?”
― Beena Khan

“one day you will shake your head in disbelief as to how you could have ever confused being treated abusively with love.”
― Dana Morningstar, Out of the Fog: Moving From Confusion to Clarity After Narcissistic Abuse

“When I began speaking out about what happened to me, many people didn’t want to hear it. They kept telling me to ‘get over it’ or that I should be happy he’s no longer in my life. What they don’t seem to realize is that I was abused and terrorized by this man for decades, and during all of that I lost my voice and I nearly lost my mind.”
― Dana Morningstar, Out of the Fog: Moving From Confusion to Clarity After Narcissistic Abuse

“One thing my recent experiences had taught me was to never assume that the mask we show in public is the same face we wear behind our own front door.”
― Dawn Goodwin, The Accident