Rita Kay > Quotes

“Freeze is not a weakness. Fawn is not surrendering.”
― Rita Kay, Shhh… Don’t Say It: A Memoir in Fragments on Trauma, Abuse, CPTSD, and Healing

“Breathe. Keep on. We’ve got galaxies to set alight.”
― Rita Kay, Her Fire Touched the Sky: Poems of Trauma, Survival, Healing, and the Quiet Rebuilding of a Soul

“Shadows stretch across the room. Silence hums. All wait for the first ray of dawn.”
― Rita Kay, Shhh… Don’t Say It: A Memoir in Fragments on Trauma, Abuse, CPTSD, and Healing

“My worth does not disappear because of what others did.”
― Rita Kay, Tell Me It’s Fiction: Short Stories of Trauma, Healing, and Surreal Emotional Truths

“You don’t have to glow to be seen. You don’t have to be whole to be worthy.”
― Rita Kay

“I wear my story like flame on bare skin.”
― Rita Kay, Her Fire Touched the Sky: Poems of Trauma, Survival, Healing, and the Quiet Rebuilding of a Soul

“Denial wrestled with knowledge and won. Panic ricocheted against numbness.”
― Rita Kay, Shhh… Don’t Say It: A Memoir in Fragments on Trauma, Abuse, CPTSD, and Healing

“We danced in the rain, made up dumb songs.
I never forgot your birthday.
I gave you presence. Joy. Protection. Loyalty.
What was false?”
― Rita Kay, Tell Me It’s Fiction: Short Stories of Trauma, Healing, and Surreal Emotional Truths

“How do I find myself in nothingness?”
― Rita Kay, Tell Me It’s Fiction: Short Stories of Trauma, Healing, and Surreal Emotional Truths

“I become whole. A mosaic, not of muses, but belonging to me.”
― Rita Kay, Shhh… Don’t Say It: A Memoir in Fragments on Trauma, Abuse, CPTSD, and Healing

“You left like Prometheus in reverse, stealing the fire and leaving me chained to silence.”
― Rita Kay, Her Fire Touched the Sky: Poems of Trauma, Survival, Healing, and the Quiet Rebuilding of a Soul

“They tried to make me a fable.
I rewrote myself into pyre.”
― Rita Kay, Her Fire Touched the Sky: Poems of Trauma, Survival, Healing, and the Quiet Rebuilding of a Soul

“I folded myself into a quiet shape, one that wouldn’t rip your peace or challenge your version of love.”
― Rita Kay, Shhh… Don’t Say It: A Memoir in Fragments on Trauma, Abuse, CPTSD, and Healing

“Isn't life a train? a journey. And every stop is different.
Why rush to the end?”
― Rita Kay, Tell Me It’s Fiction: Short Stories of Trauma, Healing, and Surreal Emotional Truths

“I summon the girl who jumps at every shadow.
I summon the breath that never came whole.
I summon the ache buried in clothes that smiled.”
― Rita Kay, Her Fire Touched the Sky: Poems of Trauma, Survival, Healing, and the Quiet Rebuilding of a Soul

“I am not calm. I am not done.
Ask again, and I will show you what it costs to make silence kneel.”
― Rita Kay, Her Fire Touched the Sky: Poems of Trauma, Survival, Healing, and the Quiet Rebuilding of a Soul

“Piece by piece, I surrender to your appetite. I vanish.”
― Rita Kay, Tell Me It’s Fiction: Short Stories of Trauma, Healing, and Surreal Emotional Truths

“Remembered what?"
"What happens when no one comes.”
― Rita Kay, Tell Me It’s Fiction: Short Stories of Trauma, Healing, and Surreal Emotional Truths

“Music, our rhythmic escape to presence.”
― Rita Kay, Tell Me It’s Fiction: Short Stories of Trauma, Healing, and Surreal Emotional Truths

“The cage? He called it love.
The bonds? Devotion.”
― Rita Kay, Tell Me It’s Fiction: Short Stories of Trauma, Healing, and Surreal Emotional Truths

“Let the villains rot.
Let the system choke.
Let ghosts hang their heads from this place they said I would never reach.

This crown wasn’t given.
It was seized through fire, flashbacks, and sharpened teeth that break handcuffs.

The crown fits my scars now.”
― Rita Kay, Her Fire Touched the Sky: Poems of Trauma, Survival, Healing, and the Quiet Rebuilding of a Soul

“I didn’t ask for the sword. But I’ve carried it this far.”
― Rita Kay, Shhh… Don’t Say It: A Memoir in Fragments on Trauma, Abuse, CPTSD, and Healing

“My nightmares don’t end when I wake.”
― Rita Kay, Tell Me It’s Fiction: Short Stories of Trauma, Healing, and Surreal Emotional Truths