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To Kill a Mockingbird

by Harper Lee

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Mar 18, 2017 10:16PM

Rustam’s Quotes

“The reason placing blame repeatedly fails to work is that I repeatedly place it on everyone else instead of where it actually belongs.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

tags: accountability, accountable, avoid, avoidance, blame, blame-placing, blaming, excuses, fail, failure, integrity, irresponsible, justification, justify, rationalization, rationalize, responsibility, responsible

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“Many survivors struggle to believe the abuse happened. They don’t want to believe it. It’s too painful to think about. They don’t want to accuse family members or face the terrible loss involved in realizing “a loved one” hurt them; they don’t want to rock the boat.”
― Laura Davis, Allies in Healing: When the Person You Love Was Sexually Abused as a Child

tags: abuse-survivors, avoidance, child-abuse-survivors, denial, denial-of-abuse, denial-of-child-abuse, denial-of-incest, disbelief, facing-reality, parental-abuse, rock-the-boat, survivors, survivors-of-abuse, trauma-memories

20 likes

“A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.”
― Saul Bellow, To Jerusalem and Back

tags: avoidance, ignorance, illusion, intelligence, self-deception

491 likes

“Avoidance is a wonderful therapy”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Linger

tags: avoidance, linger, love

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“It wasn’t until I slowed the car and rolled down the windows that I realized I spend most of my days driving ‘through’ life without driving ‘in’ life. So, I’ve decided to walk because the pace is slower and the windows are always down.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough