A radio was playing quietly. Nobody was listening. It was there to drown out the silence.

— Rachel Abbott

Each time he came he would twist my defenceless body into a different pose, as if I were his very own doll

— Rachel Abbott

It was as if she would never be whole until the secrets of the past were exposed.

— Rachel Abbott

She searched her mind for a single day when it had felt good to be alive. There must have been one, surely?

— Rachel Abbott

The quiet but inexorable breaking down of self-esteem is much more sinister - it’s violation of the soul.

— Rachel Abbott

Today is the day after my wedding. And nothing is the way I expected it to be.

— Rachel Abbott