Jeremy

“These people have all developed the art of not experiencing feelings, for a child can experience her feelings only when there is somebody there who accepts her fully, understands her, and supports her. If that person is missing, if the child must risk losing the mother’s love or the love of her substitute in order to feel, then she will repress her emotions. She cannot even experience them secretly, “just for herself”; she will fail to experience them at all. But they will nevertheless stay in her body, in her cells, stored up as information that can be triggered by a later event.”
― Alice Miller, The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self

“I know these sorts of people. They're not men. They're mustaches with idiots attached.”
― Katherine Rundell, Rooftoppers

“If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.”
― Alan Wilson Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety

“One can only remember what has been consciously experienced.”
― Alice Miller, The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self