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“Abuse manipulates and twists a child’s natural sense of trust and love. Her innocent feelings are belittled or mocked and she learns to ignore her feelings. She can’t afford to feel the full range of feelings in her body while she’s being abused—pain, outrage, hate, vengeance, confusion, arousal. So she short-circuits them and goes numb. For many children, any expression of feelings, even a single tear, is cause for more severe abuse. Again, the only recourse is to shut down. Feelings go underground.”
― Allies in Healing: When the Person You Love Was Sexually Abused as a Child
― Allies in Healing: When the Person You Love Was Sexually Abused as a Child
“The idea of God was invented in the small hours of history by a scam who had genius; it somehow reeks too much of humanity, that idea, to make its azure origin plausible...”
― Despair
― Despair
“Hot from hell. Caesar's spirit raging in revenge. Cry,havoc! And let slip the dogs of war.”
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“You are enough to drive a saint to madness or a king to his knees.”
― To Kiss a King
― To Kiss a King
“If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge.”
― The Merchant of Venice
― The Merchant of Venice
Heather’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Heather’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
133 books
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30 friends
81 books
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23 friends
313 books
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49 friends
7 books
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14 friends
294 books
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136 friends
317 books
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51 friends
6 books
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35 friends
1 book
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70 friends
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Favorite Genres
Classics, Contemporary, Crime, Ebooks, Fiction, Historical fiction, Horror, Memoir, Mystery, Paranormal, Philosophy, Psychology, Thriller, and Travel
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