Top Trauma Quotes

Bitter truths have the need to expect backups if they are shared at all.

It's as if I died too,' she whispered to herself, 'as if I was born dead.'Ironically, it was true. Emotionally she knew what her mind did not, beyond logic, beyond reason, as if somehow deep inside sh...

My God, what have they done to you? This isn't a man, it's a broken kite.

God wants you to be delivered from what you have done and from what has been done to you - Both are equally imporant to Him.

All the tall mad mountains of her mind

Then tell me of your long journey home, Ada said.Inman thought about it, but then he let himself imagine he had at last come out on the far side of trouble and had no wish to revisit it, so he told on...

People to whom a terrible thing has never happened trust fate, the notion that what's meant to be, will be. The rest of us know better.

This morning I was ten years old. Tonight I am older than the stars.

And as a few strokes on the nose will make a puppy head shy, so a few rebuffs will make a boy shy all over. But whereas a puppy will cringe away or roll on its back, groveling, a little boy may cover...

It is not so easy as running and not running.

There always seemed to be a better way, except when it came to people. Once broken, people couldn't be repaired.

Perhaps you know that Ingeborg Bachmann poemfrom the last years of her life that beginsI lose my screamsdear Antigone,I take it as the task of the translatorto forbid that you should ever lose your sc...

A bad thing happened to you kids, Dad said. But it could have been worse.So much worse, Mom said.But because of you kids, Dad said, it wasn't.You did so good, Mom said.Did beautiful, Dad said.

For in other ways a woman is full of fear, defenseless, dreads the sight of cold steel; but, when once she is wronged in the matter of love, no other soul can hold so many thoughts of blood.

I can't think again. Not ever again. I don't know if you've ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist. Or just not be aware that you do exist. Or something...

I had many things to say, I did not have the words to say them. Painfully aware of my limitations, I watched helplessly and language became an obstacle. It became clear that it would be necessary to i...

There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.

То, что Джон Уэйд пошел на войну, было заложено в природе любви. Не ради того он пошел, чтобы гробить других или себя, не ради того, чтобы быть хорошим гражданином, или героем, или человеком нравствен...

When you're born a light is switched on, a light which shines up through your life. As you get older the light still reaches you, sparkling as it comes up through your memories. And if you're lucky as...

After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.