Steph Anya

“It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.”
― James Baldwin

“People who cannot connect through work, friendships, or family usually find other ways of bonding, as through illnesses, lawsuits, or family feuds. Anything is preferable to that godforsaken sense of irrelevance and alienation.”
― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

“You can say things with food that you can’t quite with words sometimes.”
― Ashely Poston

“In men and women with congestive heart failure, the state of the patient’s marriage is as good a predictor of survival after four years as the severity of the symptoms and degree of impairment,”
― Sue Johnson, Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love