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Top 30 Lucinda Berry Quotes (2025 Update)

Lucinda Berry Quote: “We fear what we don’t understand, so it’s easier to think of them as monsters. It makes us feel safe rather than having to think about the possibility that some people are just born that way, and it could be any of us or someone we love.”

1. “We fear what we don’t understand, so it’s easier to think of them as monsters. It makes us feel safe rather than having to think about the possibility that some people are just born that way, and it could be any of us or someone we love.”

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Lucinda Berry Quote: “I used to think the world was a good place. Now I know it was only a fairytale. Bad things happen and they happen all the time. They’re everywhere. You can’t stop them.”

2. “I used to think the world was a good place. Now I know it was only a fairytale. Bad things happen and they happen all the time. They’re everywhere. You can’t stop them.”

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Lucinda Berry Quote: “When kids go through trauma, they do incredible things to survive their situation. Sometimes it means their brains create different stories and other realities to help them cope, elaborate fantasies to make something horrible make sense.”

3. “When kids go through trauma, they do incredible things to survive their situation. Sometimes it means their brains create different stories and other realities to help them cope, elaborate fantasies to make something horrible make sense.”

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Lucinda Berry Quote: “No one was more proud of me than I was of myself.”

4. “No one was more proud of me than I was of myself.”

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Lucinda Berry Quote: “It was too much to hope for a light at the end of the tunnel. I gave up on that long ago, but if I looked hard enough, there was always light on my next step.”

5. “It was too much to hope for a light at the end of the tunnel. I gave up on that long ago, but if I looked hard enough, there was always light on my next step.”

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Lucinda Berry Quote: “They’d officially diagnosed Janie with child abuse syndrome. People always assume sexual abuse is the worst kind of abuse that a child can endure, but it’s not. It doesn’t have the kind of lasting effects that you see in kids who’ve been severely neglected.”

6. “They’d officially diagnosed Janie with child abuse syndrome. People always assume sexual abuse is the worst kind of abuse that a child can endure, but it’s not. It doesn’t have the kind of lasting effects that you see in kids who’ve been severely neglected.”

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Lucinda Berry Quote: “I didn’t want to die, at least I don’t think so. I just didn’t want to feel anything. Everything was just too heavy.”

7. “I didn’t want to die, at least I don’t think so. I just didn’t want to feel anything. Everything was just too heavy.”

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Lucinda Berry Quote: “Sometimes, what doesn’t kill you simply doesn’t kill you, and you spend all your time wishing it had.”

8. “Sometimes, what doesn’t kill you simply doesn’t kill you, and you spend all your time wishing it had.”

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Lucinda Berry Quote: “It was tortuous to want to die yet still be alive.”

9. “It was tortuous to want to die yet still be alive.”

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Lucinda Berry Quote: “What are you talking about? We can’t just give her back – we’re her parents. Her parents, Hannah. Whether you like it or not, that’s what we signed on for.” His body shook as he tried to control his anger. “You can’t just give your kids away when it’s rough.” “You can if your kid is a monster.”

10. “What are you talking about? We can’t just give her back – we’re her parents. Her parents, Hannah. Whether you like it or not, that’s what we signed on for.” His body shook as he tried to control his anger. “You can’t just give your kids away when it’s rough.” “You can if your kid is a monster.”

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Lucinda Berry Quote: “I would like you all to try and remember that you are not your mental illness. Your mental illness is only a part of you.”

11. “I would like you all to try and remember that you are not your mental illness. Your mental illness is only a part of you.”

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Lucinda Berry Quote: “It never crossed anyone’s mind that someone else might be in trouble. I wished it would’ve. Maybe then things would’ve ended differently.”

12. “It never crossed anyone’s mind that someone else might be in trouble. I wished it would’ve. Maybe then things would’ve ended differently.”

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Lucinda Berry Quote: “People always think the scariest thing about sociopaths is that they don’t feel any empathy. That’s not it at all. The scariest thing about sociopaths is that they feel no empathy but are so good at pretending they do.”

13. “People always think the scariest thing about sociopaths is that they don’t feel any empathy. That’s not it at all. The scariest thing about sociopaths is that they feel no empathy but are so good at pretending they do.”

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Lucinda Berry Quote: “It gave us an opportunity to miss each other, and sometimes you needed that in a relationship even when you loved each other as much as we did.”

14. “It gave us an opportunity to miss each other, and sometimes you needed that in a relationship even when you loved each other as much as we did.”

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Lucinda Berry Quote: “No matter how many times I was questioned by the police, it never got easier. My nerves jumped into high gear automatically. They always made me feel like I was lying, even when I was telling the truth.”

15. “No matter how many times I was questioned by the police, it never got easier. My nerves jumped into high gear automatically. They always made me feel like I was lying, even when I was telling the truth.”

— Lucinda Berry

Lucinda Berry Quote: “Parenting a traumatized child is horribly difficult. Most of them suffer from severe attachment issues, and mothers are usually the targets of their rage. It can get pretty awful.”

16. “Parenting a traumatized child is horribly difficult. Most of them suffer from severe attachment issues, and mothers are usually the targets of their rage. It can get pretty awful.”

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Lucinda Berry Quote: “I always intended to go back and finish my degree, but fear stole my choices one at a time until I didn’t have any left.”

17. “I always intended to go back and finish my degree, but fear stole my choices one at a time until I didn’t have any left.”

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Lucinda Berry Quote: “We forgave murderers, not pedophiles.”

18. “We forgave murderers, not pedophiles.”

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Lucinda Berry Quote: “Could a child be born bad? And if so – if there really was such a thing as a bad seed – could you turn them good?”

19. “Could a child be born bad? And if so – if there really was such a thing as a bad seed – could you turn them good?”

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Lucinda Berry Quote: “Why did the universe allow people who hurt kids to have them? Why couldn’t it give them to people like me, who wanted them?”

20. “Why did the universe allow people who hurt kids to have them? Why couldn’t it give them to people like me, who wanted them?”

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Lucinda Berry Quote: “One of the worst things you could do to someone in the midst of tragedy was to give them a cliche because the intensity of the loss was too big.”

21. “One of the worst things you could do to someone in the midst of tragedy was to give them a cliche because the intensity of the loss was too big.”

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Lucinda Berry Quote: “I didn’t know how someone could be so sure of themselves without someone else defining them.”

22. “I didn’t know how someone could be so sure of themselves without someone else defining them.”

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Lucinda Berry Quote: “Have you seen my high school transcripts?” She snorts. “I was involved in everything. Anything that kept me out of the house. You should worry about the kids who never want to be at home.”

23. “Have you seen my high school transcripts?” She snorts. “I was involved in everything. Anything that kept me out of the house. You should worry about the kids who never want to be at home.”

— Lucinda Berry

Lucinda Berry Quote: “I wished I lived in a world where I didn’t know violence intimately, but I’d seen more than my fair share, given the work I did.”

24. “I wished I lived in a world where I didn’t know violence intimately, but I’d seen more than my fair share, given the work I did.”

— Lucinda Berry

Lucinda Berry Quote: “Lillian had only been gone for three days, and Hannah was already stretched to her limit again. Cole was a voracious eater and fed every two hours, sometimes sooner, and she wasn’t sleeping more than a few hours at a time. Even when she slept, she wasn’t completely relaxed. She jolted awake at the slightest sound. Cole was in a bassinet next to our bed, and she obsessively woke up to check and see if he was breathing, terrified of SIDS.”

25. “Lillian had only been gone for three days, and Hannah was already stretched to her limit again. Cole was a voracious eater and fed every two hours, sometimes sooner, and she wasn’t sleeping more than a few hours at a time. Even when she slept, she wasn’t completely relaxed. She jolted awake at the slightest sound. Cole was in a bassinet next to our bed, and she obsessively woke up to check and see if he was breathing, terrified of SIDS.”

— Lucinda Berry

Lucinda Berry Quote: “I didn’t need to have a background in mental health to see she’d been brainwashed and indoctrinated with their propaganda. She’d obviously been coached. She was like an automaton trained to respond to certain trigger words.”

26. “I didn’t need to have a background in mental health to see she’d been brainwashed and indoctrinated with their propaganda. She’d obviously been coached. She was like an automaton trained to respond to certain trigger words.”

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Lucinda Berry Quote: “I’m not a victim. I’m special. He told me that many times.”

27. “I’m not a victim. I’m special. He told me that many times.”

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Lucinda Berry Quote: “Being his parent didn’t stop after he died, and it was my job as his mother to protect his memory in the same way I protected him while he was alive.”

28. “Being his parent didn’t stop after he died, and it was my job as his mother to protect his memory in the same way I protected him while he was alive.”

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Lucinda Berry Quote: “If you did everything right and it still turned out wrong, then what was the point?”

29. “If you did everything right and it still turned out wrong, then what was the point?”

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Lucinda Berry Quote: “I’m telling you – Jacob and Sawyer were in a relationship.”

30. “I’m telling you – Jacob and Sawyer were in a relationship.”

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Lucinda Berry Quote: “She crawled up on my lap and whispered in her sweet voice, “I like hurting people. Do you?”

31. “She crawled up on my lap and whispered in her sweet voice, “I like hurting people. Do you?”

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Lucinda Berry Quote: “The problem with having a fairy-tale relationship story was how much other people were invested in keeping the fairy tale alive. It wasn’t just our story – it was everyone’s.”

32. “The problem with having a fairy-tale relationship story was how much other people were invested in keeping the fairy tale alive. It wasn’t just our story – it was everyone’s.”

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Lucinda Berry Quote: “People think of redheads as fragile and exotic.”

33. “People think of redheads as fragile and exotic.”

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