Nolan Poltorak
https://www.goodreads.com/sillybones
“If your parents’ faces never lit up when they looked at you, it’s hard to know what it feels like to be loved and cherished. If you come from an incomprehensible world filled with secrecy and fear, it’s almost impossible to find the words to express what you have endured. If you grew up unwanted and ignored, it is a major challenge to develop a visceral sense of agency and self-worth.”
― The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
― The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
“They wanted each other in the way of flesh wanting to knit itself together over a wound.”
― These Violent Delights
― These Violent Delights
“As long as you keep secrets and suppress information, you are fundamentally at war with yourself…The critical issue is allowing yourself to know what you know. That takes an enormous amount of courage.”
― The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
― The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
“I want to meet you in every place I have loved.”
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
“It felt like the world had divided into two different types of people, those who had felt pain and those who had yet to.”
― Crying in H Mart
― Crying in H Mart
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