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“One day your country is yours, and the next it isn’t.”
― Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark

“I avoided you, so that you couldn’t avoid me.”
― Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark

“Trauma is trauma. Your brain and body don't differentiate between physical and emotional abuse. They only respond to attack.”
― Holly Bourne, The Places I've Cried in Public

“This is how I lived back then– through books. I locked myself into their stories, dreamt of their characters at night, pretended to be them. They were my armour against the hard edges of reality. I carried them with me wherever I went, like a talisman in my pocket, thinking of them as almost more real than the people around me, who spoke and lived in denial, destined, I thought, to never do anything worth recounting.”
― Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark