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People who endure childhoods like mine tend to go one of two ways, a therapist once told me. Either they try to give their kids the kind of parenting they wish they’d had, or they avoid children altogether.
“By telling you anything at all I’m at least believing in you, I believe you’re there, I believe you into being. Because I’m telling you this story I will your existence. I tell, therefore you are. So I will go on. So I will myself to go on. I am coming to a part you will not like at all, because in it I did not behave well, but I will try nonetheless to leave nothing out. After all you’ve been through, you deserve whatever I have left, which is not much but includes the truth.”
― The Handmaid's Tale
― The Handmaid's Tale
“His mother’s life had taught him that you do everything you can to cling to survival.”
― The Names
― The Names
“There must be a resistance, or where do all the criminals come from, on the television?”
― The Handmaid's Tale
― The Handmaid's Tale
“And”
― The Poppy Fields
― The Poppy Fields
“If you don’t get that extra reassurance you might automatically assume that they are thinking negatively about you. But that is a bias”
― Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?: An International Bestselling Guide to Mental Health and Emotional Resilience from a Clinical Psychologist
― Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?: An International Bestselling Guide to Mental Health and Emotional Resilience from a Clinical Psychologist
Kerry’s 2025 Year in Books
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