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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: forget, memory, mnemonic-help
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  • #2
    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: inspirational, love
    76507 likes

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  • #3
    Haruki Murakami
    “Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
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    Mark Goulston
    “Unlike simple stress, trauma changes your view of your life and yourself. It shatters your most basic assumptions about yourself and your world — “Life is good,” “I’m safe,” “People are kind,” “I can trust others,” “The future is likely to be good” — and replaces them with feelings like “The world is dangerous,” “I can’t win,” “I can’t trust other people,” or “There’s no hope.”
    ― Mark Goulston MD, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder For Dummies
    tags: dangerous-world, lack-of-trust, post-traumatic-stress-disorder, posttraumatic-stress-disorder, ptsd, sense-of-self, shattered-souls, stress, trauma, traumatic-stress, work-view
    53 likes

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  • #5
    Alex Flinn
    “Sometimes, unexpected things can happen.”
    ― Alex Flinn, Beastly
    tags: reality-of-life
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    Haruki Murakami
    “Closing your eyes isn't going to change anything. Nothing's going to disappear just because you can't see what's going on. In fact, things will even be worse the next time you open your eyes. That's the kind of world we live in. Keep your eyes wide open. Only a coward closes his eyes. Closing your eyes and plugging up your ears won't make time stand still.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
    tags: escapism, page-192
    1846 likes

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  • #7
    Oscar Wilde
    “Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: art, future-prediction, inspirational, reality-of-life, spontaneity
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    Haruki Murakami
    “No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves. That's all.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: 24 Stories
    tags: the-past
    1014 likes

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  • #9
    Veronica Roth
    “I could never hurt him enough to make his betrayal stop hurting. And it hurts, in every part of my body.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Insurgent
    tags: betrayal, hurt, pain, trust
    834 likes

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  • #10
    Jess C. Scott
    “I felt like an animal, and animals don’t know sin, do they?”
    ― Jess C. Scott, Wicked Lovely
    tags: body, cool, desire, erotic, erotica, funny, girl, honesty, humor, humour, incest, love, lust, passion, relationships, romance, sex, sexuality, sister, taboo, truth, wisdom
    952 likes

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  • #11
    “It is up to each one of us to immunize ourselves from any disabling bolts of anger and defend ourselves from the thunderstorms of hatred. No matter how maliciously anyone might act towards us, humankinds’ ability to express empathy, compassion, and mercy is the only life-sustaining panacea. Whenever we foster empathy and compassion and display mercy towards other people, we overcome the vilest actions and greatest atrocities committed by other persons. If we love everyone, we can never feel victimized or hate anyone. If we love ourselves, we will never act in a degrading manner.”
    ― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
    tags: acceptance, anger, anger-quotes, bitterness, compassion, compassion-quotes, compassion-wisdom, compassionate-heart, compassionate-love, empath, empathy-for-others, enlightenment, enlightenment-principles, forgiveness, forgiveness-quotes, hate, hate-quotes, hatred, hatred-quotes, love-each-other, love-everyone, love-everything, love-the-world, love-thy-enemies, love-thy-neighbor, love-thyself, merciful, mercy, victimized
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  • #12
    Louise O'Neill
    “They are all innocent until proven guilty. But not me. I am a liar until I am proven honest.”
    ― Louise O'Neill, Asking For It
    tags: double-standards, rape, rape-culture, sexism
    237 likes

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  • #13
    Toba Beta
    “Betrayal is common for men with no conscience.”
    ― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
    tags: betrayal, conscience
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  • #14
    Sarah Dessen
    “She knew I could tell with one glance, one look, one simple instant. It was her eyes. Despite the thick makeup, they were still dark-rimmed., haunted, and sad. Most of all though, they were familiar. The fact that we were in front of hundreds of strangers changed nothing at all. I'd spent a summer with those same eyes-scared, lost, confused-staring back at me. I would have known them anywhere.”
    ― Sarah Dessen, Just Listen
    tags: lost, pain, rape, sad, sadness, sexual-assault
    358 likes

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    Criss Jami
    “When a man is penalized for honesty he learns to lie.”
    ― Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile
    tags: consciousness, honesty, human-nature, lying, man, penalize, psychology, punishment, reaction, response, self-defense, unconscious-mind
    453 likes

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  • #16
    Jess C. Scott
    “The whole thing becomes like this evil enchantment from a fairy tale, but you're made to believe the spell can never be broken.”
    ― Jess C. Scott, Heart's Blood
    tags: abuse, abused, abused-women, anger, crime, crime-fiction, evil, fairy-tale, fury, murder, rape, rape-culture, revenge, seven-deadly-sins, vigilante, wrath
    60 likes

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  • #17
    “The silence was killing me.

    And that's all there ever was. Silence. It was all I knew. Keep quiet. Pretend nothing had happened, that nothing was wrong. And look how well that was turning out.”
    ― J. Lynn, Wait for You
    tags: rape, sexual-abuse, sexual-assault, silence
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  • #18
    Judith Lewis Herman
    “In order to escape accountability for his crimes, the perpetrator does everything in his power to promote forgetting. If secrecy fails, the perpetrator attacks the credibility of his victim. If he cannot silence her absolutely, he tries to make sure no one listens.”
    ― Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
    tags: abuse, abuse-survivors, abuser, abusers, attack-on-character, attacking-people, backlash, break-the-silence, child-sexual-abuse, child-sexual-abuse-survivor, crazy, credibility, denial, false-memories, false-memory-myth, false-memory-syndrome-campaign, healing-from-abuse, hysterical, incest, insane, just-tell, lack-of-accountability, lying, perpetrator, perpetrators, pschological-abuse, rape-culture, rape-myths, rape-survivor, secrecy, sexual-abuse, sexual-assault, sexual-violence, survivor, survivors, unstable, victimized, victimizing
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  • #19
    “Denial forces victims to retreat in lifeless existence, dieing in the shadows of buried trauma and painful memories.”
    ― Trudy Metzger
    tags: child-sexual-abuse, denial, rape, rape-culture, sexual-abuse, sexual-assault, shame, society-denial, survivor, survivors-of-abuse, trauma, traumatic-experiences, traumatized, victim, victim-blaming
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  • #20
    “Violators cannot live with the truth: survivors cannot live without it. There are those who still, once again, are poised to invalidate and deny us. If we don't assert our truth, it may again be relegated to fantasy. But the truth won't go away. It will keep surfacing until it is recognized. Truth will outlast any campaigns mounted against it, no matter how mighty, clever, or long. It is invincible. It's only a matter of which generation is willing to face it and, in so doing, protect future generations from ritual abuse.”
    ― Chrystine Oksana, Safe Passage to Healing: A Guide for Survivors of Ritual Abuse
    tags: abusers, child-abuse, child-protection, child-sexual-abuse-lies, deny, fantasy, invalidate, invalidation, media-campaign, media-distortions, perpetrators, propaganda, rape, ritual-abuse, sexual-abuse, society-denial, survivors, truth-violators, victims
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  • #21
    Haruki Murakami
    “I am living in hell from one day to the next. But there is nothing I can do to escape. I don't know where I would go if I did. I feel utterly powerless, and that feeling is my prision. I entered of my own free will, I locked the door, and I threw away the key.”
    ― Haruki Murakami
    tags: 1q84, domestic-abuse, domestic-violence, powerless, powerlessness, sad, suicide
    96 likes

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    Sierra D. Waters
    “No amount of me trying to explain myself was doing any good. I didn't even know what was going on inside of me, so how could I have explained it to them?”
    ― Sierra D. Waters, Debbie.
    tags: advocates, america, anxiety, anxiety-attack, anxiety-disorders, arizona, child-abuse, control, corruption, crime, crime-and-punishment, domestic, domestic-abuse, domestic-violence, enable-abuse, family, family-drama, family-relationships, fighter, government, growing-up, growth, healing, hope, hopeful, hopeful-heart, hurt, injustice, inspire, justice, justice-system, law-enforcement, lawmakers, laws, life, living, memoir, memories, overcoming, panic-attack, panic-attacks, pedophile, physical-abuse, police, politicians, politics, post-traumatic-stress, power, powerful-story, powerless, ptsd, quote, quotes, rape, rape-culture, rape-of-a-child, rape-survivor, raped, red-tape, safety, sexual-abuse, sexual-assault, sexual-violence, south, southern, survival, survive, survivor, survivors-of-abuse, truth, united-states, united-states-of-america, violence, violence-against-women, youth
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  • #22
    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “I just want to sleep. A coma would be nice. Or amnesia. Anything, just to get rid of this, these thoughts, whispers in my mind. Did he rape my head, too?”
    ― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak
    tags: depression, rape
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    Sherrilyn Kenyon
    “Everyone suffers at least one bad betrayal in their lifetime. It’s what unites us. The trick is not to let it destroy your trust in others when that happens. Don’t let them take that from you.”
    ― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Invincible
    tags: betrayal, suffering, trust
    1270 likes

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    Heather Brewer
    “The worst pain in the world goes beyond the physical. Even further beyond any other emotional pain one can feel. It is the betrayal of a friend.”
    ― Heather Brewer, Ninth Grade Slays
    tags: betrayal
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    Whitney Otto
    “No one fights dirtier or more brutally than blood; only family knows it’s own weaknesses, the exact placement of the heart. The tragedy is that one can still live with the force of hatred, feel infuriated that once you are born to another, that kinship lasts through life and death, immutable, unchanging, no matter how great the misdeed or betrayal. Blood cannot be denied, and perhaps that’s why we fight tooth and claw, because we cannot—being only human—put asunder what God has joined together.”
    ― Whitney Otto, How to Make an American Quilt
    tags: betrayal, family, fighting
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    Wallace Stegner
    “Touch. It is touch that is the deadliest enemy of chastity, loyalty, monogamy, gentility with its codes and conventions and restraints. By touch we are betrayed and betray others ... an accidental brushing of shoulders or touching of hands ... hands laid on shoulders in a gesture of comfort that lies like a thief, that takes, not gives, that wants, not offers, that awakes, not pacifies. When one flesh is waiting, there is electricity in the merest contact.”
    ― Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose
    tags: betrayal, infidelity, longing, touch
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  • #28
    Cassandra Clare
    “When no one you know tells the truth, you learn to see under the surface.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight
    tags: betrayal, lady-midnight, lies, pain, the-dark-artifices, truth
    437 likes

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  • #29
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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    Benjamin Disraeli
    “There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.”
    ― Benjamin Disraeli
    tags: attributed-no-source, lies, lying, misattributed-mark-twain, statistics, truth
    4012 likes



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