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“You don’t get to choose when or how you die, you know? And which is clear after everything, death is random and unfair, but you do get to choose how you live.”

“Life gave us no choice but to move forward”
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“All along we’ve been linked together by otherness without ever having to say it out loud” 😭😭😭

“We come from an innumerable landscape of light and dark. The majority of our composition (…) derives from stars and supernovas.” ⭐️♥️

“Over those years, you gave this country your health, your spirit. Did this country deserve you?”

“It is stories that give shape to a life.”

Being the only person from your culture in a large group can feel deeply isolating… even more when the environment is hostile toward people like you.

“I heard someone say once that many of us only seem able to find heaven by backing away from hell.”

"we are only as sick as our secrets"

“How you kill a ghost?”
What a deep and silly question… probably will keep me up several nights 🥲

So far this book is great and extremely entertaining, I adore Mukesh and felt extremely identify with Aleisha… also I hate Mukesh daughters… I want to smash their faces and make them spend more time with their Dad and less criticizing him or his life choice. Now I want to create my own reading list and hide it in several places around my city 😅

“Everyone else got to wear their regular outfits from the first movie. I had to wear my outfit that Jabba picked out for me. Jabba the Hutt - the fashionista. Jabba the Hutt - the Coco Chanel of intergalactic style, Trendsetter, fashion maven, leader of women's looks in his world, on his planet and the next.“

Carrie’s sense of humor was absolutely delightful, clever, and charmingly funny, it shines through every story she left behind. So far, this book is utterly captivating, and I can’t put it down. ☺️

“The greatest sources of our suffering are the lies we tell ourselves”.

“Most human suffering is related to love and loss and the job of therapists is to help people”acknowledge, experience, and bear” the reality of life -with all its pleasures and heartbreak.”

“If you do something to a patient the you would not do to your friends or children, consider whether you are unwittingly replicating a trauma from the patient’s past.”

My best friends taught me a new kind of quiet, the peaceful stillness of knowing one another so well you don't need to fill the space. And a new kind of loud: noise as a celebration, as the overflow of joy at being alive, here, now.

“We have learned that trauma is not just an event that took place sometime in the past; it is also the imprint left by that experience on mind, brain, and body. This imprint has ongoing consequences for how the human organism manages to survive in the present.”

“As we know, era is not the only calamity that leaves humans lives in ruins. (…) For many people the war begins at home.”

“After trauma the world becomes sharply divided between those who know and those who don’t. People who have not shared the traumatic experience cannot be trusted, because they can’t understand it.”

“When people are compulsively and constantly pulled back into the past, to the last time they felt intense involvement and deep emotions, they suffer from a failure of imagination, a loss of the mental flexibility. Without imagination there is no hope, no chance to envision a better future, no place to go, no goal to reach.”

“It’s hard enough to face the suffering that has been inflicted by others, but deep down many traumatized people are even more haunted by the shame they feel about what they themselves did or did not do under the circumstances. They despise themselves for how terrified, dependent, excited, or enraged they felt.”

“Trauma, whether it is the result of something done to you or something you yourself have done, almost always makes it difficult to engage in intimate relationships.”

“The greatest sources of our suffering are the lies we tell ourselves.”

“Feeling out of control, survivors of trauma often begin to fear that they are damaged to the core and beyond redemption.”

“While we all want to move beyond trauma, the part of our brain that is devoted to ensuring our survival (deep below our rational brain) is not very good at denial. Long after a traumatic experience is over, it may be reactivated at the slightest hint of danger and mobilize disturbed brain circuits and secrete massive amounts of stress hormones.”