Protectors Quotes

“She is a Weyward. And she carries another Weyward inside her. She gathers herself together, every cell blazing, and thinks: Now.
The window breaks, a waterfall of sharp sounds. The room grows dark with feathered bodies, shooting through the broken window, the fireplace.
Beaks, claws, and eyes flashing. Feathers brushing her skin. Simon yells, his hand loosening on her throat.
She sucks in the air, falling to her knees, one hand cradling her stomach. Something touches her foot, and she sees a dark tide of spiders spreading across the floor. Birds continue to stream through the window. Insects, too: the azure flicker of damselflies, moths with orange eyes on their wings. Tiny, gossamer mayflies. Bees in a ferocious golden swarm.
She feels something sharp on her shoulder, its claws digging into her flesh. She looks up at blue-black feathers, streaked with white. A crow. The same crow that has watched over her since she arrived. Tears fill her eyes, and she knows in that moment that she is not alone in the cottage. Altha is there, in the spiders that dance across the floor. Violet is there, in the mayflies that glisten and undulate like some great silver snake. And all the other Weyward women, from the first of the line, are there, too.
They have always been with her, and always will be.”
― Emilia Hart, Weyward

“More than half of our history is lost, not because they were not documented, but they had no guardians and protectors.”
― M.F. Moonzajer

“Managers usually have extensive knowledge of events and of the system. They are often available to explain to the therapist the internal systemic dilemmas that are not otherwise evident. Generally, they are fairly empty of affect. Another term for managers has been internal self-helpers (Putnam, 1989).”
― Elizabeth F. Howell, Understanding and Treating Dissociative Identity Disorder

“To preemptively protect the child so that the child may anticipate the abuse rather than be surprised by it, protector parts become persecutors modeled on the abusers. Thus, parts who were protectors when the person was a young child may become persecutors in time, holding anger and rage and meting out punishments to other parts of the self.”
― Elizabeth F. Howell, Understanding and Treating Dissociative Identity Disorder

“Part of the shelter for these wounded ones involves the emergence of what we are calling protectors, aspects of ourselves that actively engage an inner and outer worlds to keep more hurt coming to those already injured. They also support the seawall that keeps the pain, fear, rage, sorrow and other inner experiences from continually welling up to threaten daily functioning.”
― Bonnie Badenoch

“Only if we are able to widen the lens to take in the bigger picture that includes both the outer challenges and the inner distress do we begin to sense that the protectors are in proportion to what is in need of shelter. It is our system's sense that moving the safeguard aside and allowing the implicit to emerge would be more harmful than whatever the protector is doing in this moment.”
― Bonnie Badenoch

“By day 3 of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) project atop Mauna Kea and after the first arrests of protectors, the ‘Immediate Halt To The Construction Of The TMT Telescope On Mauna Kea’ petition had 31,322 signatures and was rapidly increasing.”
― Steven Magee

“Having watched the arrests of the Mauna Kea protectors, I am now looking forward to watching the arrests of the Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO) management teams for illegally damaging their summit workers health.”
― Steven Magee

“I felt the spiritual connection to Mauna Kea and visited with the sacred mountain protectors in Hawaii.”
― Steven Magee

“I am proud of the Mauna Kea protectors in Hawaii.”
― Steven Magee

“غريب أن يخاف أهل الديار حماة الديار !”
― محمد عناني, الجزيرة الخضراء

“Wherever there is darkness, there will always be those who strive for the dawn,” she declared. “We are the shield against your night, Dimiryat. And we will not break.”
― Layla Soreyne, Arya and the Guardians of Azhira