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“Truth is in our blood. It is the essennce of our being. It is the best part of us, the core of what makes us human. It is our soul, our fundamental genetic beauty, and our spirit. We were created p...”
“She knew, now, why her father had not spoken of the last war, nor Alistair of his. It was hardly fair on the living.”
“How resilient was the body, to return to its prior form so quickly! Yet the mind was formed of a less pliable substance. The emptiness in her thoughts would not be so easily filled. Instead there w...”
“I watch what happens below and Iam grateful that I can smell my smell, smell my smell and live while below me it happens, it happens that night bright as day, but I cannot name it, those things tha...”
“Trauma, if it doesn't destroy us, wakes us up both to our own relational capacities and to the suffering of others. Not only does it makes us hurt, it makes us more human, caring, and wise.”
“Sometimes we have a war in our hearts. Were torn in two directions. The way we feel and the way we should feel. They rarely align. The battle goes on.”
“The holes are slowly filling up, and despite itself the brain will work until the job is completed.”
“There is, in every event, whether lived or told, always a hole or a gap, often more than one. If we allow ourselves to get caught in it, we find it opening onto a void that, once we have slipped in...”
“A common feature of many theories of trauma is the idea that the causativethe woundingevent is not remembered but relived, as it is in the flashbacks of combat veterans, experienced anew with a vis...”
“My parents also had a tough time recognizing me at first. because my eyes were black and swollen shut and I had two tubes coming out of my head.”
“And so, now, she runs. In her running, her mind leaves her.And she can hear nothing but her heart, the blast making her deaf.There is a great white silent empty in her running.She runs.”
“The culture and heritage should stay intact and be maintained as it provides the individuals with some degree of resiliency. The effects of the trauma is what should be focused on and treated. Impr...”
“This morning I was ten years old. Tonight I am older than the stars.”
“Naturally the descendants of survivors meet regularly with phenomena in the course of their lives which, for the parents, are in associative connection with the suppressed fearful memories. These p...”
“Did you hear me, Zach? I care about you. Okay, I said. Its okay with me that you care about me. But can we please not talk about it? Would that be okay with you? Yeah, that would be okay, he said.”
“Do we as a society need people who have emerged from some kind of trauma. And the answer is that we plainly do. There are times and places however when all of us depend on people who have been hard...”
“My God, what have they done to you? This isn't a man, it's a broken kite.”
“My sister don't talk much. When she does, it's only to me, in moth-winged whispers, and only when we're alone.”
“Look at us. One bleeding body, one corpse, and a husk who's been half dead for years. No one who took an objective look at this room could think it was anything but too late, Ruth. For all of us.”
“The wounded are instruments, singing pain.”
