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“After listening to my entire story, he quietly said: "You can say, "This is impossible, terrible.' Or you can say, 'This is beautiful, wonderful.' You can imagine that you're in exile. Or you can imagine that you have more than one home.”
― Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love
― Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love
“I tell my students, who are concerned with the question of betrayal, that when it comes to memoir, there is no such thing as absolute truth—only the truth that is singularly their own. I say this not to release them from responsibility but to illuminate the subjectivity of our inner lives. One person's experience is not another's.”
― Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love
― Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love
“Why me?
He says: Because you are not like all the others, because I don't see anyone but you and you don't even realize it.
He adds this phrase, which for me is unforgettable: Because you will leave and we will stay.”
― Lie With Me
He says: Because you are not like all the others, because I don't see anyone but you and you don't even realize it.
He adds this phrase, which for me is unforgettable: Because you will leave and we will stay.”
― Lie With Me
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
― Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
― Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
“What most people mean by type is a sense of attraction—a type of physical appearance or a type of personality turns them on. But what underlies a person’s type, in fact, is a sense of familiarity. It’s no coincidence that people who had angry parents often end up choosing angry partners, that those with alcoholic parents are frequently drawn to partners who drink quite a bit, or that those who had withdrawn or critical parents find themselves married to spouses who are withdrawn or critical.”
― Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
― Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
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