Trauma And Art Quotes

“Grief requires imagination: mental images of the one you've lost, of the world that would have been... On the night Mom was killed, I was halted: imagination became a dangerous place, full of darkness and terror. Creativity would have taken energy I needed to survive. And so I could not write, and I could not remember, and I could hardly mourn, only fear.”
― Sarah Perry, After the Eclipse: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Search