Pragya Sinha

“I was enveloped in numbness, and absence of feeling so deep the bottom was lost from view.”
― haruki murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“Traumatized people chronically feel unsafe inside their bodies: The past is alive in the form of gnawing interior discomfort. Their bodies are constantly bombarded by visceral warning signs, and, in an attempt to control these processes, they often become expert at ignoring their gut feelings and in numbing awareness of what is played out inside. They learn to hide from their selves.” (p.97)”
― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

“There's a difference between preferring books to parties and preferring sixteen cats to seeing the light of day.”
― Lauren Morrill, Meant to Be

“Telling an introvert to go to a party is like telling a saint to go to Hell.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy