John Nicholl > Quotes

“Trauma recognises trauma. It hums at the same frequency”
― John Nicholl, That Day at Rose Cottage

“Shame is the shadow companion of trauma. You react, you flinch, then you judge yourself for reacting”
― John Nicholl, That Day at Rose Cottage

“There are people who step into a room. And people who assume it belongs to them”
― John Nicholl, That Day at Rose Cottage

“For those who escaped the darkness, those still searching for the light, and those whose journey ended too soon”
― John Nicholl, That Day at Rose Cottage

“Hospitals have a particular stillness. It is never peaceful; it's the stillness of sedated distress, where conversations are held in lowered voices so that grief does not spill too loudly into the corridors”
― John Nicholl, That Day at Rose Cottage