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“You probably had been looking for someone like Grier – an insecure student that needed a positive male role model in her life, thanks to my failure of a father – and secured her trust, slowly over time. You have built her a private castle
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“Trauma is not what happens to you but what happens inside you”
― The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture
― The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture
“I’ve found that fairy tale locks are inclined to pop open at the first sign of narrative agency).”
― A Mirror Mended
― A Mirror Mended
“Bessel van der Kolk: “Trauma is when we are not seen and known.”
― The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture
― The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture
“It's uncomfortable that this isn't all good or all bad or a happy ending or a sad ending, but just a mess that everyone muddled through. It's very painful to start loving someone when holding on to the idea of hating them keeps you safe.”
― Strong Female Character
― Strong Female Character
“My father did not become the bad guy for me. Not yet. That day I hated my mother for killing my father, but also for all the reasons you cannot say. Part of my child brain hated her because she wasn’t young enough or even beautiful enough. Because she wasn’t strong enough. Or because she was too strong. Because she was so complex where my father was not. I hated my mother, in short, for being a woman.”
― Animal
― Animal
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