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Andrea Yates Quotes

Total quotes: 17
“I didn’t think I was getting better. One time I drew water in the tub, and Rusty worried about that, why I did it, and he took me back in the hospital.”
— Andrea Yates
Tagged: Mental Illness, Postpartum Psychosis, Infanticide
“Well, they came, and I opened the door, and I told them I killed my children, and I led them down the hall to where they were.”
— Andrea Yates
Tagged: Infanticide, Drowning, 911, Murder, Postpartum Psychosis
“Well, I didn’t want them ruined, and I was afraid being around him, they would continue to go downhill. And I thought I should save them before that happened.”
— Andrea Yates
Tagged: Mental Illness, Postpartum Psychosis, Infanticide
“I...I thought about what I was about to do and how it fit in there, the deadly sins. And how I would have done all of them after I drown my children.”
— Andrea Yates
Tagged: Seven Deadly Sins, Infanticide, Mental Illness, Postpartum Psychosis
“There was [sic] the thoughts about the TVs, and cameras in the house, and afraid Satan would ruin my children through himself, and that maybe even that I had some Satan in me.”
— Andrea Yates
Tagged: Mental Illness, Postpartum Psychosis, Hallucinations, satan
“Well I thought it was murder, and I felt I had done all the other sins, and now this one would be the last one, the last one of the sins.”
— Andrea Yates
Tagged: Postpartum Psychosis, Mental Illness, Infanticide, Seven Deadly Sins
“Well, doing it would take them to heaven, and not doing it there’d be a risk of Satan messing them up.”
— Andrea Yates
Tagged: Heaven, satan, Postpartum Psychosis, Mental Illness, Infanticide
“When he came up out of the water and said something, but I didn’t know what it was. It was like ‘I’m sor—,’ and I didn’t hear the rest. I don’t know if he was saying, ‘I’m sorry,’ or what.”
— Andrea Yates
Tagged: Infanticide, Mental Illness, Postpartum Depression, Drowning
“I put him in the water until he stopped breathing. I don’t know how many minutes it was or anything.”
— Andrea Yates
Tagged: Murder, Drowning, Postpartum Psychosis, Mental Illness, Infanticide
“Well, it needed to be done for the children’s sake, I felt.”
— Andrea Yates
Tagged: Infanticide, Mental Illness, Postpartum Psychosis
“Because I didn’t want them tormented by Satan like I was.”
— Andrea Yates
Tagged: Mental Illness, Postpartum Psychosis, Infanticide
“I had these visions of harming Noah, and so I said, [inaudible] closing in. And I called Rusty at work and told him I needed him to come home. When he came home, I said I needed help, and I meant medical help. He thought I meant help with the children.”
— Andrea Yates
Tagged: Mental Illness, Postpartum Psychosis, Infanticide
“I was afraid if I discussed it that it would happen. If it was—we had spoke [sic] to this treatment and started—he said that Satan can’t read your thoughts. But if you say them aloud, he will hear them and he’ll use them against you. Now, I thought I verbalized these fears that that they would come about.”
— Andrea Yates
Tagged: satan, Mental Illness, Hallucinations, Infanticide, Postpartum Psychosis
“They had to die to be saved.”
— Andrea Yates
Tagged: Postpartum Psychosis, Infanticide, Mental Illness
“It was the seventh deadly sin. My children weren't righteous. They stumbled because I was evil. The way I was raising them they could never be saved....Better for someone else to tie a millstone around their neck and cast them in a river than stumble. They were going to perish. I was so stupid! Couldn't I have killed just one to fulfill the prophecy? Couldn't I have offered Mary?”
— Andrea Yates
Tagged: Seven Deadly Sins, Righteous, Evil, Postpartum Psychosis, Infanticide, Mental Illness
“The drownings. They, um, I drew up the water, and Rusty had already left for work that day, and I went in the bathroom, and I set Mary on the floor. And while I was filling the tub, Paul came in, and he sat on the tub and he said, he said “Mommy are we gonna take a bath today?” And then he asked again, and I didn’t answer him. I put him in the water for a couple minutes, and when it was through, I took him and laid him down on my bed, our bed. And I went back in the bathroom, and John had wandered in…and then I put him in for a couple minutes. And Luke was close by. And I put him in. And I moved John on the bed. I put Luke on the bed. And I called for Noah from the kitchen. He came to me, and I led him to the bathtub. Before— before Noah, I did Mary. Mary was still in the tub when he came in. He said, ‘Mommy what’s wrong with Mary?’ I put him in the tub. Then I called the police to come to the house, and I called Rusty to come home.”
— Andrea Yates
Tagged: Infanticide, Drowning, Mental Illness, Postpartum Psychosis
“Well, I thought I, they had given me some medicine, and I lay down for a nap, and I was kind of in between staying asleep and awake, and I thought I heard some voices come from the wall, and uh, I thought the voices said in a growl, in a gravelly voice, I thought he said, ‘Andrea, come here,’ and I got up out of bed, and I turned to the wall, and I said, ‘What do you want?’ and that’s all of that exchange. The voice went away. And I believe it was Satan calling me.”
— Andrea Yates
Tagged: satan, Hallucinations, Postpartum Psychosis, Infanticide, Mental Illness
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