Kathryn Stone

“Denial is the lid on our emotional pressure cooker: the longer we leave it on, the more pressure we build up. Sooner or later, that pressure is bound to pop the lid, and we have an emotional crisis.”
― Susan Forward , Toxic Parents: Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life

“Successful adult relationships, whether between lovers or friends, require a significant degree of vulnerability, trust, and openness.”
― Susan Forward, Toxic Parents: Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life

“No man lives, can live, without having some object in view, and making efforts to attain that object. But when object there is none, and hope is entirely fled, anguish often turns a man into a monster.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The House of the Dead

“Did I know him? Did I love him? You ask me that? I knew him like you know nobody in the world, and I loved him like you love God.”
― Ernest Hemingway, Winner Take Nothing