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Alexis
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“It never occurred to me that the overwhelming emotional and physical impact was still yet to come.”
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“If not, a person might find himself standing at a funeral, spinning a false narrative to mask a guilty conscience.”
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“Some things stay unresolved. You make peace with their active, living presence in your life. You live in, and with, the charged absence.”
― A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
― A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
“This isn't an inspirational story. This isn't a story about keeping the flame of hope alive through adversity, and burning through to the other side, where what is wished for can at last be had. This is a story, I think, about what happens when in a very real sense that flame of hope is put out entirely. When forever after you can't find the muscle strength, deep in you, to rise to the moment when something wished-for might actually be attained, or even when something might be wished for in the first place.”
― A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
― A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
“Children are always ghosts to adults, no matter what they do; they're always shadows of our own fears and memories and rages. No adult can ever see a child properly, through that veil. We've got no idea what they are. We have to just guess, and we can only guess based on what we already know. And we'll always get it wrong.”
― A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
― A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
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