Hope

"It is not a single crime when a child is photographed while sexually assaulted (raped.) It is a life time crime that should have life time punishments attached to it. If the surviving child is, more often than not, going to suffer for life for the crime(s) committed against them, shouldn't the pedophiles suffer just as long? If it often takes decades for survivors to come to terms with exactly how much damage was caused to them, why are there time limits for prosecution?"

"No amount of me trying to explain myself was doing any good. I didn't even know what was going on inside of me, so how could I have explained it to them?"

"At sacred-time, I will give birth to divine-twins in Jesus Name. Amen."

"Don’t give up on yourself, your family and your nation."

"He told me that if I hung up, he'd do it. He would commit suicide. He told me that if I called the cops he would kill every single one of them and I knew that he had the potential and the means to do it"

"John was still making comments regarding violent things that he shouldn't, but I hoped he was just being a big mouth. Nobody was going to listen to me anyway."

"Intimidated, old traumas triggered, and fearing for my safety, I did what I felt I needed to do."

"Man is the head of the family, just as Christ is the Head of the Church."

"A woman may try to control the man. But God appointed man as the head of the family."

"I love you is biblical."

"My greatest blessings are my life, my children and my family."

"Get to know your parents, you never know when they'll be gone for good. Be nice to your siblings, they're your best link to your past. And the people most likely to stick with you in the future."

"Sometimes the greatest storms bring out the greatest beauty… Life can be a storm, but your hope is a rainbow and your friends and family are the gold."

"Bond is stronger than blood. The family grows stronger by bond."

"It was mind boggling to know that I would experience such betrayal at such a young age while others live their whole life without knowing what betrayal is"

"In my mind, learning to fly was a very logical alternative. I honestly saw no other way to free myself from this torture other than to fly just like the birds did; the birds were completely free"​"

"Despite their depressing circumstances, the Hernandez family had a certain dignity and strength about them. They were Christians, and they taught their children that God loved them and had a plan for their lives. Their little boy, David, internalized that message of hope. He never thought of himself as a victim even though he had every reason to feel cheated. His family was at the bottom of the social ladder without even a house to live in, but his worth as an individual was rooted in his faith."

"Death can surprise us. It can scare us. It can keep us up at night. But we’ve also learned the things that death cannot do. It cannot crush our hopes. It cannot take away the love and support of our friends and family."

"Sometimes the bridges you burn light the way out of your darkness, but the memory of the blaze will be burned into your heart and mind forever."

"Trust God, He will care for your every need."