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the people we meet at the wrong time are actually just the wrong people.
“You begin to think, maybe erroneously, that this other kind of anger is really a type of knowledge: the type that both clarifies and disappoints. It responds to insult and attempted erasure simply by asserting presence, and the energy required to present, to react, to assert is accompanied by visceral disappointment: a disappointment in the sense that no amount of visibility will alter the ways in which one is perceived.”
― Citizen: An American Lyric
― Citizen: An American Lyric
“Nobody notices, only you've known,
you're not sick, not crazy,
not angry, not sad--
It's just this, you're injured.”
― Citizen: An American Lyric
you're not sick, not crazy,
not angry, not sad--
It's just this, you're injured.”
― Citizen: An American Lyric
“Refuse the old means of measurement.
Rely instead on the thrumming wilderness of self. Listen.
-From "Out West”
― Bestiary: Poems
Rely instead on the thrumming wilderness of self. Listen.
-From "Out West”
― Bestiary: Poems
“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
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