“Sometimes I wonder what it would be like for everything inside me that's denied and unknown to be revealed. But I'll never know. I live my life in hiding. My survival depends on it.”— Melissa Rosenberg, Daniel Cerone, Dexter Morgan, Michael C. Hall, imdb.com
“Unlearning abuse also means unlearning the abusive behaviors that you inherited as survival tactics.”— Negra con N mayúscula, twitter.com
“No one ever thinks they’re awful, even people who really actually are. It’s some sort of survival mechanism.”— Emily St. John Mandel, amazon.com