“Although psychology and pedagogy have always maintained the belief that a child is a happy being without any conflicts, and have assumed that the sufferings of adults are the results of the burdens and hardships of reality, it must be asserted that just the opposite is true. What we learn about the…”— Melanie Klein, goodreads.com
“becoming dragonfish to survive the horrors we are living with tortured lungs adapting to breathe blood.”— Audre Lorde, amazon.com
“It is impossible for you to go on as you were before, so you must go on as you never have.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com
“To love me is to love a haunted house– it’s fun to visit once a year, but no one wants to live there, and when you say, 'Tell me about the bad days,' it sounds like all the neighborhood kids daring each other to ring the doorbell”— Brenna Twohy, brennatwohy.tumblr.com
“How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart, you begin to understand, there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep… that have taken hold.”— J. R. R. Tolkein, Frodo, amazon.com
“Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.”— Natalie Goldberg, amazon.com
“On February 8, 2009, at 12:30am, Chris Brown beat Rihanna’s face into a landscape of craters and bruises. This is the architecture of violence. Later, Chris Brown described their relationship as being similar to Romeo and Juliet’s. In 2013, David O. Russell groped his niece’s breasts and claimed she…”— Meggie Royer, writingsforwinter.tumblr.com
“Since then, he has tried to tell Willem more things. But there are so many topics that he has never discussed with anyone since Ana, now twenty-five years ago, that he finds he literally doesn't have the language to do so. His past, his fears, what was done to him, what he has done to himself — they…”— Hanya Yanagihara, amazon.com