Transgenerational Trauma Quotes

“I couldn't stop myself, so I thought about all the bad things and I fed it and fed it until I was crying so hard I had to gasp for breath between sobs. I thought about how my great-grandparents had starved to death. I thought about their wasted bodies being fed to incinerators because people they didn't know hated them. I thought about how the children who lived in this house had been burned up and blown apart because a pilot who didn't care pushed a button. I thought about how my grandfather's family had been taken from him, and how because of that my dad grew up feeling like he didn't have a dad, and now I had acute stress and nightmares and was sitting alone in a falling-down house and crying hot, stupid tears all over my shirt. All because of a seventy-year-old hurt that had somehow been passed down to me like some poisonous heirloom, and monsters I couldn't fight because they were all dead, beyond killing or punishing or any kind of reckoning. At least my grandfather had been able to join the army and go fight them. What could I do?”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

“Your pain didn't start with you, but it can end with you.”
― Stephanie M. Hutchins, Reclaim Your Life After Trauma

“—I don't believe in that shit, Oscar. That's our parents' shit.
—It's ours too, he said.”
― Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

“Until you heal your first wounds,
everyone else will hurt.”
― Ezinne Orjiako, Nkem.

“Childhood is a voice that I’m unburying until my vocal
cords hurt.”
― Laura Gentile, Daughterbody I: a self-exorcism through poetry

“you took the war
and distributed it
like sacramental bread”
― Laura Gentile, you ate popcorn in my house of grief: transgenerational poetry

“Die Muster des Blutes durch die Muster der Blusen.”
― Laura Gentile, mutterseelenallein & splitterfasernackt | transgenerationale Trauma- und Trauergedichte

“Ich bin vor dir weggelaufen weil ich nicht kriechen wollte.”
― Laura Gentile, mutterseelenallein & splitterfasernackt | transgenerationale Trauma- und Trauergedichte

“Ich habe gelernt auf deinen Körper zu hören nicht auf deine Worte.”
― Laura Gentile, mutterseelenallein & splitterfasernackt | transgenerationale Trauma- und Trauergedichte

“Er legte mir seinen Körper entgegen und forderte Verantwortung.
Ich riss mein Kind aus mir heraus, das was ich einmal war, und flüsterte Anerkennung.”
― Laura Gentile, mutterseelenallein & splitterfasernackt | transgenerationale Trauma- und Trauergedichte