K.L. Randis Quotes

• “Just remember, rain doesn’t seem all that threatening at first, but too much rain can turn into a flood.”

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• “Not everyone is abused by getting hit or slapped around, no child. Some people get put down by being called names, or the abuser makes them feel like they crazy and that the abuse ain’t happening.”

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• “We were fifteen months apart in age which meant everything was a competition; who could read all the Disney books the fastest, ride their bike further or know all answers to the universe both large and small.”

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• “Professionals don’t know what gives some people a resilient personality,” Dr. Russ said, pacing the classroom. “You can have four people go through something exceptionally traumatic, and one of those people will have a higher resiliency to coping. They won’t turn to drugs or rebel against society, they’ll seek the positive in any given situation. Now the interesting thing is the argument whether resiliency is nature or nurture. Are we born with it, or is it taught to us?”

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• “We don’t have the luxury of fallin’ apart, for someone else to come picking up the pieces.”

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• “Strong people sometimes have to make hard decisions because they can’t rely on anyone else. But God only gives you what you can handle, nothing more, nothing less.”

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• “It wasn’t ignorance, the years of ignoring and denying what happened in our home, it was a deliberate surrender.”

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• “My body sank to the ground and I wrapped my arms around my knees, trying to figure out what I had done that made God hate me so much.”

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• “They never asked if I had a grudge or if I watched too much TV or if someone had put me up to it. They didn’t care what the reason was, they just wanted to make sure that I kept telling Social Services that it wasn’t true.”

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• “note cards in my pocket. My mom sat against the”

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• “mental”

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• “She’s a little stubborn to see doctors but I told her it was important we get her to the hospital.”

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• “I wanted to believe, for years, that Adam didn’t remember that night because of how hard he hit his head. The truth was, I think Adam’s spirit was broken in that”

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• “A promise of freedom with an extra-heavy side of guilt, coming right up.”

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• “Paul and I started walking to his house everyday after school to hang out. It was also convenient that he lived so close to where I worked. We could spend time together for an hour before I started my shift and I could spend time with Paul without having to tell my parents. “So what time does your little brother’s bus come?” I poured a glass of orange”

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• “proctors would nod their heads and mark the sheets as it fed out the results. Everyone wanted to know the truth, yet they asked the wrong questions”

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• “They never gave me a polygraph. I imagined myself strapped to a machine with a series of questions being rattled off. The proctors would nod their heads and mark the sheets as it fed out the results. Everyone wanted to know the truth, yet they asked the wrong questions over and over. “Are you okay?” “Do you need a break?” “What can I do?” No one would want to hear the real answers.”

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• “There was the overturned glass, the spilled milk, but his father didn’t yell, hit, or throw anything. The reaction that I had anticipated never came, and it left me standing at my chair in flight mode without a reason.”

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• “that’s something that happened to you. It’s not who you are.”

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• “Sonia rolled her eyes. “No one, Romeo. Take it easy.”

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• “I couldn’t concentrate on the Spanish vocabulary I was supposed to be writing down in my notebook. I hardly noticed when a student walked in halfway through the period and Mr. Caruzo had to say my name twice before I noticed he was motioning to me. “Brooke, you’re needed in the front office.” The front office was narrow”

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• “proctors would nod their heads and mark the sheets as it fed out the results. Everyone wanted to know the truth, yet they asked the wrong questions over and over. “Are you okay?” “Do you need a break?” “What can I do?” No one would want to hear the real answers. My hand closed around the organic chemistry note cards in my pocket. How do hydrogen and chlorine react in the presence”

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• “You pull everything apart. It’s like a war zone filled with grilled cheese casualties.” He flicked a crumb from my cheek. “Can’t you just eat everything instead of picking it apart like that?” I bit my lip. “Yeah, habit I guess.”

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• “I would get an Irish victim advocate. Her hair bounced around her face, blazing in a fireball of red glory while highlighting the doubt in her eyes as she tried to soothe me. I took it with a grain of salt, smiled, and accepted the one of many hugs that generally came my way after a debriefing. She”

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• “It wasn’t like a birthday or vacation memory I was trying to recall, and I had tried to push many of them to the back of my mind, never to be thought about again.”

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