First Lines Friday - September 23, 2011

This is a bookish meme hosted by Literary Marie of Precision Reviews. Here is what you do:

• Grab your current read(s).
• Share the first line(s).
• Include the title and author so that other FLF participants can add the book to their TBR Lists.

The Verbally Abusive Relationship: How to Recognize it and How to Respond by Patricia Evans

"Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them.  Sticks and stones may break

our bones, but words will break our hearts.....- Robert Fulghum

"Most of us are aware that name calling is verballly abusive.  If you have been called idiot, dummy, bitch or any other derogatory name, you have been verbally abused."

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