My scars show pain and suffering, but they also show my will to survive. They're part of my history that'll always be there.

- Cheryl Rainfield

I hate my body Hate what it remembers. Hate what it let him do.

- Cheryl Rainfield

I think you've got to get out whatever's hurting you through your art, so it doesn't twist you up inside.

- Cheryl Rainfield

And I'm still alive. That's what I have to focus on. Because I want to live. Even now I can't let myself give up. And that's something I didn't know …

- Cheryl Rainfield

You can see when someone's been hurt the way I was. It's obvious. Something changes in their eyes; pain becomes their center, even when they try to h…

- Cheryl Rainfield

I know you're upset, I know you're scared, but don't walk away.

- Cheryl Rainfield

I was focused before - obsessed, really - with the appearance of perfection. But what did that ever bring me but pain? Pain and not seeing people for…

- Cheryl Rainfield

If I don’t do what feels right to me, what I need and want to do, then am I really living?

- Cheryl Rainfield

Other times, I look at my scars and see something else: a girl who was trying to cope with something horrible that she should never have had to live …

- Cheryl Rainfield