Lily

“Trauma isn’t just the sadness that comes from being beaten, or neglected, or insulted. That’s just one layer of it. Trauma also is mourning the childhood you could have had. The childhood other kids around you had.”
― Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

“The essence of what trauma does to a person is it makes them feel like they don’t deserve love,”
― Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

“It takes an intellectual and physical effort to shove aside the comfortably worn neural pathways and go in a different direction.”
― Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

“But the sadness of a lost childhood feels like yearning, impossible desire. It feels like a hollow, insatiable hunger.”
― Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma