Celine Prell

“God does not save us from suffering on this Earth. The Staryk afflict the righteous as well as the sinful, just as do illness and sorrow.”
― Naomi Novik, Spinning Silver

“The development of subjectivity is inextricably bound up with the appreciation of the subjectivity of others”
― Stephen A. Mitchell, Hope and Dread in Psychoanalysis

“The exploration and construction of a personal history with another person is a powerful, transformative intrapersonal experience. Without memory, there is no self. Meaning is personal experience composed into narratives. However, the narratives brought forth by the patient are generally stereotypes and closed. A central part of what the analyst adds is imagination, a facility with reorganizing and reframing, a capacity to envision different endings, and different futures. If the storylines suggested by the analyst himself are rigid and stereotypes, the analytic process degenerates into sterility and conversion.”
― Stephen A. Mitchell, Hope and Dread in Psychoanalysis

“The boredom you speak of…that’s what most of us call happiness”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow