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The Raven Thief (Secret Staircase Mystery, #2)

by Gigi Pandian (Goodreads Author)

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The Bone Season: Author’s Preferred Text

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The Cautious Traveller's Guide to the Wastelands

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“Many deeply hidden memories have come flooding back. The important message here though is that it is possible to heal and survive. Everyone has survived their own kind of emotional or mental trauma. We all have our inner fears and misreplaced feelings of guilt.”
― Lynette Gould, Heart of Darkness: How I Triumphed Over a Childhood of Abuse

tags: childhood-abuse, fear, guilt, memories, rape, sexual-abuse, trauma, traumatic-experiences

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“Maybe we just lived between hurting and healing.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

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“Sometimes, you do things and you do them not because you're thinking but because you're feeling. Because you're feeling too much. And you can't always control the things you do when you're feeling too much.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

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“Coming to terms with incest is not easy. Learning to be a survivor, not a victim, gives new meaning to life”
― Lynette Gould, Heart of Darkness: How I Triumphed Over a Childhood of Abuse

tags: childhood-abuse, guilt, healing, incest, memories, rape, sexual-abuse, survivor, survivors, trauma, traumatic-experiences

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“Once the fear took hold, I was fucked. I'd never known anything like it could exist: all-consuming, ravenous, a whirling black vortex that sucked me under so completely and mercilessly that it truly felt like I was being devoured alive, bones splintered, marrow sucked.”
― Tana French, The Witch Elm

tags: anxiety, fear

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