Miss Smith was chewing the French up in her mouth, grinding it down with her molars and expelling the powdered dust of its remains.
“If you do something to a patient that you would not do to your friends or children, consider whether you are unwittingly replicating a trauma from the patient’s past.”
― 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
“Somewhere between the fact we know and the anxiety we feel is the reality we live.”5”
― The Blood of Emmett Till
― The Blood of Emmett Till
“And I wonder what the sound of a heart breaking might be. And I think it might be quiet, unperceptively so, and not dramatic at all. Like the sound of an exhausted swallow falling gently to earth.”
― Tin Man
― Tin Man
“If you wait too long for the right moment to tell somebody the truth, it’s practically the same as lying.”
― Half a World Away
― Half a World Away
“One of the consequences of surviving schizophrenia for fifty years is that sooner or later, the cure becomes as damaging as the disease.”
― Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
― Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
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