Quotes by Laura Davis

“Keene State has many areas of change with new buildings and new college administrators,”

“Allies in Healing: When the Person You Love Was Sexually Abused as a Child, a Support Book for Partners”

“The Courage to Heal Workbook: For Men and Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse”

“His goal was always to have his own home.”

“Weve seen water rushing down the arroyo, if we get another rain whats gonna happen to the cheap fill, is it gonna run into our backyard?”

“Abuse manipulates and twists a child’s natural sense of trust and love. Her innocent feelings are belittled or mocked and she learns to ignore her feelings. She can’t afford to feel the full range of feelings in her body while she’s being abused—pain, outrage, hate, vengeance, confusion, arousal. So she short-circuits them and goes numb. For many children, any expression of feelings, even a single tear, is cause for more severe abuse. Again, the only recourse is to shut down. Feelings go underground.”