Chloe Blake

“Unhealed trauma is a crack. And all the little hard things that trickle into it that would have rolled off someone else, settle. Then when life gets cold, that crack gets bigger, longer, deeper. It makes new breaks. You don’t know how broken she was or what she was trying to do to fill those cracks. Being broken is not an excuse for bad behavior, you still have to make good choices and do the right thing. But it can be the reason. And sometimes understanding the reason can be what helps you heal.”
― Abby Jimenez, Just for the Summer

“The books taught me that when we live through traumatic experiences, our brains take in the things around us that are causing the greatest threat, and they encode these things deep into our subconscious as sources of danger.”
― Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

“I love this job,” I say. “I know you do,” he tells me. “But it’s important to make sure the job is not unkind to you.”
― Rebecca Serle, In Five Years

“the way music could break and heal and make everything seem possible and heroic.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass