“As the adage goes, history is written by the victors, penned by those who remain to tell it. No matter how skewed or one-sided the story, many of us rarely think to question what that story would look like if told by the other side.”
― It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle
― It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle
“Art is where what we survive survives.”
― The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
― The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
“Being ourselves means sometimes having to find the courage to stand alone, totally alone.”
― Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone
― Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone
“And as hard as this choice is, we break the pattern before the pattern breaks us.”
― It Ends with Us
― It Ends with Us
“When darkness comes over your soul, it doesn’t come in light shades; it descends with all the black of a moonless night.”
― This Tender Land
― This Tender Land
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