Mia Schuld

“Could it be that easy? We just have to weep and prostrate ourselves and God forgives everything? But maybe it’s not easy at all – maybe to weep and prostrate ourselves with genuine sincerity is the hardest thing we could ever learn how to do.”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You

“Because what I know for sure is that everything that has happened to you was also happening for you. And all that time, in all of those moments, you were building strength.”
― Bruce D. Perry, What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing

“She said that until you heal the wounds of your past, you will continue to bleed. The wounds will bleed through and stain your life, through alcohol, through drugs, through sex, through overworking. You have to have the courage to pull out the wound and begin to heal yourself. This is the lesson I hope everyone carries with them from our conversation, too.”
― Bruce D. Perry, What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing

“I began to feel it all over again – the nearness, the possibility of beauty, like a light radiating softly from behind the visible world, illuminating everything.”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You