If These Walls Could Talk

If These Walls Could Talk is a raw and intimate memoir about growing up too soon, surviving abuse, and learning how to choose yourself without denying the past. Beginning at fourteen, DaJanae recounts what it meant to mistake attention for safety, to become a mother while still a child, and to endure a relationship where love was confused with control. Through pregnancy, betrayal, violence, and silence, she navigates motherhood, survival, and the quiet strength it takes to keep going when leaving feels impossible. This is not a story about weakness-it is a story about conditioning, endurance, and the moment clarity finally arrives. With unflinching honesty, DaJanae explores anger as a lifeline, forgiveness as self-preservation, and healing as a process that is neither linear nor pretty. At its heart, this book is about breaking cycles-for herself and for her children-and redefining what love is supposed to look like. If These Walls Could Talk is for anyone who has ever stayed too long, grown up too fast, or found the courage to leave and begin again.