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Written at the height of her fame but not published until over a decade after her death, this autobiography of actress and sex symbol Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962) poignantly recounts her childhood as an unwanted orphan, her early adolescence, her rise in th

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Elizabeth A. Smart (14)Chris Stewart (8)Marilyn Monroe (2)Elizabeth Smart (1)

“But those with shattered souls find it very difficult to speak.”

— Elizabeth Smart, amazon.com

Tagged: Introvert, Hurting, damaged, Suffering, Silence

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.’”

— Marilyn Monroe, amazon.com

Tagged: Imperfection

“What I felt is not uncommon among victims of rape or abuse. Rape is such a violation; the feeling of worthlessness is almost universal. It wasn’t my fault. But I was broken. No one would want me anymore.”

— Elizabeth A. Smart, amazon.com

Tagged: Rape, Abuse, surviving

“Life is a journey for us all. We all face trials. We all have ups and downs. All of us are human. But we are also the masters of our fate. We are the ones who decide how we are going to react to life.”

— Elizabeth A. Smart, amazon.com

Tagged: Life, Fate, Take Back Your Life

“Those with shattered souls find it very difficult to speak.”

— Elizabeth A. Smart, amazon.com

Tagged: Despair, voice

“I didn’t feel like a whole person anymore. I felt like I was … like not even half, like I was just a portion of a human being. I just felt filthy and disgusting. I felt like, Who could ever want me back? Who could ever want to talk to me? Who would ever be my friend? I don’t know what the exact defi…”

— Elizabeth A. Smart, amazon.com

Tagged: Despair, Rape, Suffering, Family

“After I had been raped and brutalized, there was something new inside my soul. There was a burning now inside me, a fierce determination that no matter what I had to do, I was going to live!”

— Elizabeth A. Smart, Chris Stewart, amazon.com

Tagged: Rape, Recovery, Inner Strength

“I also believe in faith. Faith in a loving and kind Heavenly Father who will always care about me. Faith that my worth will never be diminished. Faith that God knows how I feel and that I can depend on him to help me through it all. I believe that God not only suffered for me, but that He will make…”

— Elizabeth A. Smart, Chris Stewart, amazon.com

Tagged: Faith, God

“Knowing it can always get worse, I try to be grateful for whatever good I have.”

— Elizabeth A. Smart, amazon.com

Tagged: grateful

“I resolved that whenever I might have any doubts or moments of weakness— and I knew that they would come — I would tell myself: Elizabeth, you have everything back now! But you remember all those hard times, right? And because you remember all those hard times, you can remember the depth of your gra…”

— Elizabeth A. Smart, amazon.com

Tagged: Weakness, Your Strength, Overcoming Abuse

“All of these things have helped me. But ultimately, to get better, I simply made a choice.”

— Elizabeth A. Smart, Chris Stewart, amazon.com

Tagged: Make The Choice, How To Get Better

“Music is the unspoken language that can convey feelings more accurately than talking ever could.”

— Elizabeth A. Smart, Chris Stewart, amazon.com

Tagged: Music, Feelings

“This experience reminded me once again that God had not deserted me, that He was aware of my suffering and loneliness. And that assurance gave me hope. It helped me to keep my faith and gave me the strength that I needed to go on.”

— Elizabeth A. Smart, Chris Stewart, amazon.com

Tagged: Family, Surviving Abuse, God, strength, Keep Fighting for Love

“The realization that my family would still love me proved to be the turning point. In fact, it proved to be the most important moment throughout my entire nine-month ordeal.”

— Elizabeth A. Smart, Chris Stewart, amazon.com

Tagged: Family, Surviving Abuse

“I think there are far more miracles in our lives than we may ever realize. Like flickers of light among the darkness, they remind us that God is there and that He cares.”

— Elizabeth A. Smart, Chris Stewart, amazon.com

Tagged: God, Miracles, Hope, God Cares

“The man who kidnapped and raped me was a manipulative, antisocial, and narcissistic pedophile. He was not clinically psychotic or delusional. He was just an evil man.”

— Elizabeth A. Smart, Chris Stewart, amazon.com

Tagged: Pedophile, Evil

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”

— Marilyn Monroe, amazon.com