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“I woke up with the shakes and went to bed with the runs. It all became too much, and a deep sadness had strangled me til I didn't want to live no more. Ten years went by without me drawing a clean breath. I lost my home, my woman, and only worked enough odd jobs to keep my mouth from getting dry. Alcohol had become my master; it was the only thing that mattered,”
― Keeper of Lost Children
― Keeper of Lost Children
“Progress happens in phases. All things in due time.”
― Keeper of Lost Children
― Keeper of Lost Children
“To come with me tonight to the meeting is to live. To keep trying to do it by yourself is to die. What's it gonna be?”
― Keeper of Lost Children
― Keeper of Lost Children
“I worked in the house and was raised alongside his daughter, though I was not allowed to touch the books that lined Mister Bobo's library. In them days, I thought books was magical, that they cast spells. To read was to have the language to ask for the things you wanted, so I became determined to teach myself.”
― Happy Land
― Happy Land
“How terrifying that must be for a child, how traumatizing—how your sense of self-worth would implode, and the pain would be too great, too huge to feel, so you'd swallow it, repress it, bury it. Over time you would lose contact with the origins of your trauma, dissociate the roots of its cause, and forget. But one day, all the hurt and anger would burst forth, like fire from a dragon's belly...”
― The Silent Patient
― The Silent Patient
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