Best 11 quotes of Cheryl Rainfield on MyQuotes

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.

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

I know you're upset, I know you're scared, but don't walk away.

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I think you've got to get out whatever's hurting you through your art, so it doesn't twist you up inside.

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.

My scars show pain and suffering, but they also show my will to survive. They're part of my history that'll always be there.

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.

You can see when someone's been hurt the way I was. It's obvious. Something changes in their eyes; pain becomes their center, even when they try to hide it.

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

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