Kyle

“Some people are likable simply because they give off the constant impression that they like you, and something about this trait is calming and easy to trust.”
― Mikel Jollett, Hollywood Park

“You’re gonna have to accept that your trauma caused him trauma. It’s hard for kids to deal with emotional abuse. You crossed all boundaries. You neglected his needs. You made him your caretaker. I don’t know what to tell you. That’s abuse.”
― Mikel Jollett, Hollywood Park

“Children of narcissists learn their feelings don’t matter to the narcissistic parent. The child carries an ever-present sense that he must bury his own ideas about the world, his own self, and do the thing required of him to please the narcissist, to receive the impossible-to-reach love and approval he craves. In short he doesn’t really know himself because he spends his life seeking to fulfill the fantasy world of the narcissistic parent.”
― Mikel Jollett, Hollywood Park

“Children experience loneliness like shame. They imagine the reason they are alone is that there is something wrong with them, that they have done something bad, something that makes them too gross to touch.”
― Mikel Jollett, Hollywood Park