Natascha Kampusch

“people do not emphasize with victims and give them limitless sympathy, but can very quickly switch to aggression and rejection”

“And the victim must have been broken and must remain so, so that the externalization of evil is possible. The victim who refuses to assume this role contradicts society's simplistic view. Nobody wants to see it. People would have to take a look at themselves.”

“...victims of violent crime are not always believed...[referring to victim testimony at serial killer and pedophile Marc Detroux's trial]”

“That day wasn't the first time I had attempted suicide. Simply disappearing into the distant nothingness where there was no pain and no more feelings - back then I thought it an act of empowerment. Otherwise I had very little power to make any decisions about my life, my body, my actions. Taking my own life seemed my last trump card.”

“Suicide seemed to me the greatest kind of freedom, a release from everything, from a life that had been ruined a long time ago.”