Aishwarya P

“That they had seen it, and not tried to stop it, made me wonder if they too thought I deserved to be treated that way. Long after they had gone I felt their eyes on me as hot as a brand, burning the shame of exposure deep into my skin.”
― Ruth Clare, Enemy: A True Story of Courage, Childhood Trauma and the Cost of War

“When the burden is not yours to carry, put it down.”
― Najamah Davis, MSW, LCSW

“I closed my eyes and wished the way I felt in that moment, lucky and loved, could last forever.”
― Ruth Clare, Enemy: A True Story of Courage, Childhood Trauma and the Cost of War

“What other things? Can you tell me some of them?’ How much I wished to reply fully to this question! How difficult it was to frame any answer! Children can feel, but they cannot analyse their feelings; and if the analysis is partially effected in thought, they know not how to express the result of the process in words.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre