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  1. Markus Zusak _ The Book Thief

    I deliberately seek out the colors to keep my mind off them, but now and then, I witness the ones who are left behind, crumbling among the jigsaw puzzle of realization, despair and surprise.
    book-quotedeathrealizationsurprise

  2. Jon Krakauer _ Missoula: Rape and the Justice

    Most women are all too familiar with men like Calvin Smith. Men whose sense of prerogative renders them deaf when women say, "No thanks," "Not interested," or even "Fuck off, creep.
    book-quoteculturefeminismwomen

  3. Kate Atkinson _ A God in Ruins

    Across the world millions of lives are altered by the absence of the dead, but three members of Teddy's last crew-Clifford the bomb-aimer, Fraser, the injured pilot, and Charlie, the tail-end Charlie-all bail out successfully from and see out the rest of the war in a POW camp. On their return they all marry and have children, fractals of the future.
    book-quotedeadsurvivorsending

  4. Maureen Brady _ Beyond Survival: A Writing

    As we move away from the old role in which we were helplessly entrapped as a victim, we make friends with the people who affirm us. Their enthusiasm about us mirrors the positive experience we are having.
    book-quotemoving-onhealingfriends

  5. Maureen Brady _ Beyond Survival: A Writing

    It is a childish notion that once established, our boundaries will never be transgressed again...We shall have to stand for ourselves repeatedly for the rest of our lives. As we practice doing this, we come to greater ease...Eventually it may float over entirely into the positive realm-becoming only another chance to demonstrated our worthiness.
    book-quotehealingboundariessurvivors

  6. Maureen Brady _ Beyond Survival: A Writing

    Though our childhood abuse left us feeling someone ought to make reparation to us, if we wait a lifetime for that, we may never receive what we need. We choose instead to face the idea that from now on, we are going to take responsibility for caring for ourselves.
    book-quotehealingsurvivorshealing-insights

  7. Maureen Brady _ Beyond Survival: A Writing

    We can ill afford to wait until we have worked through all our memories & feelings about incest before learning to rest & play. While it may seem to be a natural impulse to get to the bottom of things & purge ourselves fully, we need to regularly examine the full picture of our lives for balance along the way…Learning to rest & play is an essential part of our healing.
    book-quotehealinghealing-the-emotional-selfsurvivors

  8. Maureen Brady _ Beyond Survival: A Writing

    When we first begin to take power more directly, after long having kept our relationship to it underground...it is natural that we experience anxiety, even guilt, at putting ourselves first. These feeling let us know we are taking action; they do not need to stop us.
    book-quoteguiltpowerhealing

  9. Maureen Brady _ Beyond Survival: A Writing

    When shame is met with compassion and not received as confirmation of our guilt, we can begin to see how slant a lens it has had us looking through. That awareness lets us step back far enough to see that if we can let it go, we will see ourselves as clean where we once thought we were dirty. We will remember our innocence. We will see how our shame supported a system in which the perpetrators were protected and we bore the brunt of their offense - first in its actuality, then again in carrying their shame for it. If the method we chose to try to beat out shame was perfectionism, we can relax now, shake the burden off our shoulders, and give ourselves a chance to loosen up and make some errors. Hallelujah! Our freedom will not come from tireless effort and getting it all exactly right.
    book-quoteguiltfreedomhealing

  10. Sarah J. Maas _ Queen of Shadows

    War--war was coming. And they might not all survive it.
    book-quotewarsurvivors

  11. Joan Didion

    Survivors look back and see omens, messages they missed
    grief-and-losssurvivorsomens

  12. Joan Didion _ The Year of Magical Thinking

    Only the survivors of a death are truly left alone. The connections that made up their life--both the deep connections and the apparently {until they are broken} insignificant connections--have all vanished.
    book-quotedeathgriefloneliness
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