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whoa!! everyone needs to read this. no sugar-coating. no impersonal bible quotes thrown at you. just raw truth. the author had so much empathy toward his readers that is really refreshing. whether your father was abusive, absent, dead, or good, this ...more "
I know now that what is tragic isn’t the moment. It is the memory.
“There is no pleasure to be had in writing about trauma. It requires opening a wound, looking into the bloody gape of it, and cleaning it out, one word at a time. Only then might it be possible for that wound to heal.”
― Writing into the Wound: Understanding trauma, truth, and language
― Writing into the Wound: Understanding trauma, truth, and language
“They didn’t want to hurt me. I am not strong. You never know how much I could suffer.”
― Love
― Love
“Now that we’re alone together, the owl-baby gets busy-busy whispering in my ear, trying to convince me to give up. It tells me it’s prepared to use force, but would prefer my full cooperation. I pray for a miscarriage.”
― Chouette
― Chouette
“Honey.” She laughs. “I’m a cynic. And a cynic is a romantic who’s too scared to hope.”
― Funny Story
― Funny Story
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