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Zoë Collins

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in Oxford, The United Kingdom

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Memoir, Nonfiction, Fiction

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"Zoë Collins is an Irish author based in County Clare. Her writing explores themes of trauma, survival, healing, and human connection, drawing on lived experience and emotional truth.

With a reflective and compassionate voice, she weaves intimate personal narrative with themes of resilience and self-discovery. A lover of nature, poetry, and the arts, she lives by the Atlantic coast, where the landscape continues to inform and ground her work."

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Now that's the official introduction out of the way, here's a bit more about me...

While I could talk for Ireland, I'm not actually a people person, and prefer the solitude of my own company. That said, I love being around those closest to me, including our goofy nine-year-old Boxer - w ...more

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“The hardest escape is from the lies we are told about ourselves, and the detrimental damages they do”
― Zoë Collins, Amor Fati: An Incredible True Story of Survival, Hope & Healing

tags: emotional-abuse, escape, memoir, realisation, survival, toxic-relationships, trauma-healing, true-story

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“Trauma does not always arrive as chaos, sometimes it arrives as normalisation”
― Zoë Collins, Amor Fati: An Incredible True Story of Survival, Hope & Healing

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“To be an adult who still believes in wonder and magic, despite all of the trauma, loss, and hardship, is to live with a kind of quiet courage and sense of hope”
― Zoë Collins, Amor Fati: An Incredible True Story of Survival, Hope & Healing

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“The hardest escape is from the lies we are told about ourselves, and the detrimental damages they do”
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tags: emotional-abuse, escape, memoir, realisation, survival, toxic-relationships, trauma-healing, true-story

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“Shame must change sides.”
― Gisèle Pelicot, A Hymn to Life

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“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
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