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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 "
My mother said that children are like poison and should never be brought into the world. She spent her days cursing all of her children, one by one.
“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
“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
“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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