Caroline Olsen

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“Sometimes when she told stories about the past her eyes would get teary from all the memories she had, but they weren't tears. She wasn't crying. They were just the memories, leaking out.”
― Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being

“When bad things happened to other people, I imagined them happening to me. I didn’t know if this was empathy or theft.”
― Leslie Jamison, The Empathy Exams

“No trauma has discrete edges. Trauma bleeds. Out of wounds and across boundaries.”
― Leslie Jamison, The Empathy Exams