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“All I’m saying is that trauma doesn’t get you a lifelong get-out-of-jail-free card. It also doesn’t necessarily confer wisdom, or the right to pontificate, which I realize I’m doing right now.”
― Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

“My life is nothing,” said Pyotr. “I am not afraid.”
― Katherine Arden, The Bear and the Nightingale

“Someone who can’t stop saying the word “trauma.” Trauma people are almost as unbearable to me as Trump people. If you try suggesting that they let go of their suffering, their victimhood, they act retraumatized. It’s like, yes, what happened to you is shitty, I’m not denying that, but why do you keep rolling around in your own shit? If they stopped doing that for two seconds and got over themselves, even a little, they might actually become who they were meant to be.”
― Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

“I feel...afraid. That's what it is, fear. I'm afraid for this child, this helpless, vulnerable child, and, in a strange way, I'm afraid of her, afraid of the power she has, precisely by her defenselessness, to bring pain, such terrible pain, to those who love her.”
― Jacqueline Holland