Keeley

“From the start, they manipulated me into participating in behaviors that ate away at me, eroding my ability to comprehend reality and preventing me from defending myself. From the start, I was groomed to be complicit in my own devastation. Of all the terrible wounds they inflicted, that forced complicity was the most destructive.”
― Virginia Roberts Giuffre, Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice

“When we love and allow ourselves to be loved, we begin more and more to inhabit the kingdom of the eternal. Fear changes into courage, emptiness becomes plentitude, and distance becomes intimacy.”
― John O'Donohue, Anam Cara [Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition]: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

“Maybe there must always be two of us—our real selves and the ones we create to survive in the world as it is.”
― Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe

“What she had learned was that life, any life, was death and rebirth, death and rebirth. Everything always changed.”
― Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars