#battered

Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

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#battered #go #had #life #longer

Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies. ↗

— Jim Morrison

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#body #bound #cripple #full #hardly

In a shelter meant for battered women, there were only two reasons a person would decide to leave. One, she had decided to launch out on her own and begin a new life. Or two, she had decided to go back to the one who had hurt her. It happened all the time. Some women came here seven or eight times before they made the choice to give up on their marriages and refuse to live in a dangerous place. ↗

— Deborah Bedford A Morning Like This

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#family #marriage #pain #women #family