Wendy Walker > Quotes

“Imagine the infant who one day cries and gets fed, and the next day cries and goes hungry. One day smiles and is kissed and hugged. The next day smiles and is ignored. This is what psychologists called 'preoccupied or unresolved attachment' with the primary caregiver--usually the mother. There was love one minute and disdain the next. Affection that was given in abundance for no reason and then taken away without cause. The child has no ability to predict or influence the behavior of the parent. The narcissist loves a child only as an extension of herself at first, and then as a loyal subject. So she will tend to the child only when it makes her feel good.”
― Wendy Walker, Emma in the Night

“Sitting on my bed with all these things I used to love but not loving them anymore, I just wanted to set them on fire. That's when I knew I was never going to be all right again.”
― Wendy Walker, All Is Not Forgotten

“I wanted to peel myself off of me.”
― Wendy Walker, All Is Not Forgotten

“In spite of everything she did that she shouldn't have done, and everything she didn't do that she should have, something that felt like love was in her and she would take it out at times like this and show it to us and make us hunger for more. All of us, each in our own way.”
― Wendy Walker, Emma in the Night

“He was that driven, that smart. But he could not sit still within himself.”
― Wendy Walker, All Is Not Forgotten

“Every brain is different. And so must be every course of therapy.”
― Wendy Walker, All Is Not Forgotten

“It requires far more strength to experience emotion than to suppress it.”
― Wendy Walker, All Is Not Forgotten

“hace falta mucha más entereza para manifestar emociones que para reprimirlas.”
― Wendy Walker, All Is Not Forgotten

“But sometimes it becomes more than that. Sometimes the weaker loves, the lust-driven loves, the filling holes, turn into more. And sometimes those momentary connections, the ones that catch us off guard like a cold wind coming around the corner of a building, sometimes those stay put and then become an anchor for a more permanent connection.”
― Wendy Walker, All Is Not Forgotten

“We have more than enough people to remind us of that, to give us dispassionate evaluations of our mediocrity.”
― Wendy Walker, All Is Not Forgotten

“Things may need to be said, but not necessarily heard by the other.”
― Wendy Walker, All Is Not Forgotten

“Una de las grandes vergüenzas de la experiencia humana es que solo sabemos adoptar la conducta adecuada cuando ya es muy tarde.”
― Wendy Walker, All Is Not Forgotten

“But Owen agreed to settle, to spare the children. Anyone who's worked in that field knows that the person who cares more about the children usually loses.”
― Wendy Walker, Emma in the Night

“Feelings do not require justification.”
― Wendy Walker, All Is Not Forgotten

“el brusco despertar no fue lo que ella había dicho, sino la constatación de que los adultos pueden equivocarse, pueden ser estúpidos, ineptos y holgazanes en su labor, y que no siempre te creen aunque les estés contando la verdad. Y cuando estas personas estúpidas e ineptas que no ven más allá de sus narices tienen poder sobre ti, cuando no se creen lo que les estás contando, pueden ocurrir cosas malas”
― Wendy Walker, Emma in the Night

“Nunca he sido capaz de expresar mis sentimientos exteriormente, como Emma. Pero eso no significa que no los tenga por dentro”
― Wendy Walker, Emma in the Night

“How is it we can do those things, things that feel permanent, like even if the relationship ended, those feelings would still be there? It makes me not believe in anything, in any feeling, in any profession, in any love at all. It's all just bullshit. Just hormones and lust and needs and filling people's gaps, the holes in their souls. We all just use each other, don't we? Nothing is what it seems.”
― Wendy Walker, All Is Not Forgotten

“Tengo muy claro que los hombres tienen una responsabilidad, y que es necesario que se den cuenta de que en cuestiones sexuales no estamos en igualdad de condiciones. Y no solo por fisiología. Por psicología también, porque las chicas todavía se sienten presionadas a hacer cosas que no quieren, y los chicos, los hombres, entienden muy poco cómo lo viven ellas”
― Wendy Walker, All Is Not Forgotten

“Pero es que sucede algo cuando abrazas a alguien o te abrazan a ti. Hace que te sientas mejor. Aleja esas indeseables sensaciones de no valer nada.”
― Wendy Walker, Emma in the Night

“I think that when you see a woman who has sex power but chooses not to use it, she is someone you can trust. -'Cass”
― Wendy Walker, Emma in the Night

“No creo que haya ninguna muerte indolora, aunque solo dure un segundo. Aunque nos corten la cabeza o nos disparen en el corazón. La vida es demasiado fuerte para desaparecer sin algún tipo de sufrimiento.”
― Wendy Walker, Emma in the Night

“Es muy fácil pensar que somos importantes y que lo que ocurre a nuestro alrededor es importante…, pero la verdad es que somos muy pequeños, insignificantes incluso en nuestro sistema solar, que a su vez es insignificante desde el punto de vista del universo. La verdad es que nada importa realmente si no decidimos que importe. Podríamos arrojar todas las bombas nucleares que hemos fabricado y matar toda la vida del planeta y el universo se limitaría a encogerse de hombros y a bostezar, porque durante los cinco mil millones de años que el sol seguirá brillando aparecerá alguna nueva clase de vida que hablará de nosotros como nosotros hablamos de los dinosaurios.”
― Wendy Walker, Emma in the Night

“A veces, tus propios pensamientos pueden matarte si no te libras de ellos.”
― Wendy Walker, Emma in the Night

“Há coisas que talvez tenham de ser verbalizadas, mas não necessariamente ouvidas pelo outro. P102”
― Wendy Walker, All Is Not Forgotten

“If you were to touch a hot stove and burn your hand, but later were made to forget how you got the burn, your body would still have the fear of being burned. Only it would not be activated only by hear, or a red-hot burner on a stove. It would come and go at its leisure, and you would have no idea how to stop it.”
― wendy walker, All Is Not Forgotten

“Jenny è scoppiata a piangere. Singhiozzava. Si è messa a gridare «Lo odio! Lo odio! Perché mi ha fatto questo?»

«Perché lui non è niente senza il potere che ti ha tolto. […] Lo senti? Con quanta disperazione voleva toglierti il potere? Quanto era affamato? È lui l’animale, Jenny. Non tu. Lui è senz’anima.»

«Ha preso la mia. Me l’ha rubata. La rivoglio! Capito? La rivoglio!»

Oh, quanto mi ha commosso quel giorno la sua forza.”
― Wendy Walker

“A las personas las queremos por cómo son, y por cómo nos hacen sentir. Normalmente toleramos sus defectos, y hasta nos los guardamos, pero en cuanto nos vemos reflejados en sus ojos de algún modo que no responda a lo que deseamos ver, a lo que necesitamos ver para sentirnos bien, se rompe la columna vertebral de ese amor.”
― Wendy Walker, All Is Not Forgotten

“Tenemos tantas ganas de odiar a alguien, de asignarle una culpa e imponerle un castigo, que lo vemos a la peor luz posible, y le imponemos los peores rasgos.”
― Wendy Walker, All Is Not Forgotten

“The human desire to not be alone in the world is powerful. More powerful, perhaps, than reason or conscience or fear.”
― Wendy Walker

“Amor u obsesión, lo que había tras sus sentimientos era tan fuerte que prefería destruirla a verla con otro”
― Wendy Walker, Emma in the Night