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Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice

by Virginia Roberts Giuffre

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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

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Like Creation stories everywhere, cosmologies are a source of identity and orientation to the world. They tell us who we are.

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“Soldiers in peacetime are superfluous: celebrated once a year for something they once were, avoided in the here and now for what they have become.”
― Margaret Atwood

tags: peacetime, soldiers, war

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“People can forget what they should remember, and remember what by all rights and purposes they should forget. Especially when death approaches.”
― Haruki Murakami, Killing Commendatore

tags: memory

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“The first fall made me stronger
Another and then the other one made me
hollow inside

The last fall will break me
But I will survive”
― Annette Dabrowska, Behind the Ghost Metropolis: Contemporary Poetry on Mental Health, Resilience, and Finding Hope

tags: experience, feeling-lost, fighting-spirit, hope, inspirational, life, mental-health, reality-of-life, strength-and-courage, trauma-healing

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“If all those things -- trust, respect, etiquette -- stop functioning, the rules clash and the game breaks down.”
― Haruki Murakami, Killing Commendatore

tags: relationships

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“By resisting the urge to reduce, in order to subsequently destroy, we keep alive -- if only for a few seconds more -- the possibility of transformation.”
― George Saunders, George Saunders & Joshua Lutz: Orange Blossom Trail

tags: reductionism, transformation

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