Anna

“In my culture, I believe we carry pain until we can reconcile with it through ceremony. Pain is not framed like a problem with a solution.”
― Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries: A Memoir

“Casey, I want to be polite and present myself as decent. I know the math of regret and nostalgia. The potency of your touch times the distance between that touch and today determines the intensity of my desperation. I regret leaving you, and I’m disappointed you let me go.”
― Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries: A Memoir

“I look for external validations of worth, and I always end up crazy over it,” I said. “It’s good you can acknowledge that,” Terri said. “How long have you been doing that?” “My whole life. Isn’t that what we learn as children? To look for affirmation in the external? Our fathers and mothers?” I said. “Some children are taught self-esteem from a young age,” she said.”
― Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries: A Memoir

“« J’imagine que l’une des raisons pour lesquelles les gens s’accrochent de manière si tenace à leurs haines, c’est qu’ils sentent bien que, une fois la haine disparue, ils se retrouveront confrontés à la douleur1. »”
― Didier Eribon, Retour à Reims: Une théorie du sujet