Katie Pigeon

“The many clocks scattered throughout our giant house confused me even more. The grandfather clocks in the halls chimed out different hours; the cuckoos in their wooden Swiss clocks popped in and out of small ornate doors, each contradicting all the others; the fancy French clock in my parents’ bedroom had stopped long ago at midnight or noon, and a Chinese clock ran backwards. To my great distress, though I searched everywhere, there were no calendars in our house, not even old ones. And the newspapers never came on the day they were due. Our only magazines were old ones, stacked in closets, hidden in the attic. Nobody threw anything away in our house. It was kept, saved for our descendents, so they could sell it one day and make a fortune.”
― V.C. Andrews, My Sweet Audrina

“little children who have this sensitized response sometimes discover that when they pick at a scab or scratch a mosquito bite—wow, that feels good. They begin to learn that self-mutilating can be regulating.”
― Bruce D. Perry, What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing

“Disconnection and loneliness in our society are playing a major role in the increased anxiety, sleep problems, substance use, and depression we’re seeing.”
― Bruce D. Perry, What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing

“Writing a memoir wasn’t my idea; it was y’alls.”
― Gypsy-Rose Blanchard, Released: Conversations on the Eve of Freedom