“ It was as if she would never be whole until the secrets of the past were exposed. ”
A radio was playing quietly. Nobody was listening. It was there to drown out the silence.
~ Rachel Abbott
She searched her mind for a single day when it had felt good to be alive. There must have been one, surely?
Today is the day after my wedding. And nothing is the way I expected it to be.
The quiet but inexorable breaking down of self-esteem is much more sinister - it’s violation of the soul.
