Sarah Embaby

“I would never blame a human creature for feeling lonely.”
― Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace

“We believe that in reducing the scope and importance of our errors, we are properly humble; in truth, we are merely unwilling to bear the weight of our true responsibility.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief

“When you’re going through a breakdown, a good question to ask is what is actually breaking down. We usually think it’s our self. But what’s typically happening is that our struggle to deny our emotional truth is breaking down. Emotional distress is a signal that it’s getting harder to remain emotionally unconscious. It means we’re about to discover our true selves underneath all that story business.”
― Lindsay C. Gibson, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

“To use language is to enter into the territory of categories, which are as necessary as they are dangerous.”
― Rebecca Solnit, The Mother of All Questions