"Sometimes it feels a status can be blank with no real emotional or expression" (Joe Peters 2015)

I guess to their wide, innocent eyes it all seemed like normal family life because they had never known any different. In fact, I was the only one who had lived with anyone else, the only one that realized that life didn't have to be this terrifying and this painful all the time

When you're little you believe whatever your mother tells you, so I assumed it must be true, that I must be inferior to the others in some way.

Mum was determinate to crush my spirit and put a stop to my behavior once and for all and she beat me up so violently, so often, that I finally understood I must never question her or so much as look at her directly again.

They take a lot of pride in being the Patriots, and we take a lot of pride in being the Crusaders.

The Olympics and Turin will be very well equipped with ground forces, air-space security and border security.