'katy Shrimpy

“Being in a state of denial is a
universally human response to
situations which threaten to
overwhelm. People who were abused
as children sometimes carry their
denial like precious cargo without a
port of destination. It enabled us to
survive our childhood experiences, and often we still live in survival mode decades beyond the actual abuse. We protect ourselves to excess because we learned abruptly and painfully that no one else would.”
― Sarah E. Olson, Becoming One: A Story of Triumph Over Dissociative Identity Disorder

“It’s just as hard to go back to a place you once left, as it is to leave it again.”
― Charlotte Eriksson

“I talk about a life that I pretend to live and you ask me what I’m talking about. But when I finally tell, you regret finding out.”
― Harley Mei Kent

“Goodbye," she told him, running her hand across his broad back one last time. "I love you. And I'll never, ever stop missing you.”
― Kate Lattey, Dare to Dream