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“As modern neurobiologists point out, the repetition of the traumatic experience in the flashbacks can be itself re-traumatizing; if not life-threatening, it is at least threatening to the chemical structure of the brain and can ultimately lead to deterioration. And this would also seem to explain the high suicide rate of survivor, for example, survivors of Vietnam.”
― Cathy Caruth, Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative and History

“It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the millionth time in my life I wish for measles or smallpox or some other easily understood disease just to make it easier on me and also on them.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“Reading someone's poetry is like seeing them naked" -Davis Pritchett”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“For she had eyes and chose me.”
― William Shakespeare, Othello