Other times, I look at my scars and see something else: a girl who was trying to cope with something horrible that she should never have had to live through at all. 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.
Cheryl RainfieldYou 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.
Cheryl RainfieldYou can see when someone's been hurt like I was. It's obvious. Something changes in their eyes; pain becomes their center, even when they try to hide it.
Cheryl RainfieldThe 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.
Cheryl RainfieldWhen something that’s a part of you causes you so much pain–pain others inflict–you obsess about it.
Cheryl RainfieldIf I don’t do what feels right to me, what I need and want to do, then am I really living?
Cheryl RainfieldI 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.
Cheryl RainfieldWhen some people in the crowd act shocked or repulsed, Diamond calmly tells them her scars are part of her past, part of what made her who she is.
Cheryl RainfieldAnd 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.
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