That’s why therapists are important. Without them, we are very unreliable narrators of our own stories.
Why don’t we sit crooked and then talk straight?
We’ve always needed boundaries to understand where we end and others begin.
We always think that closure is something we can find out there in the world, as if we can find it in another person, or a confession, or an apology. See, in the end, nothing can absolve us but ourselves.
Trauma is a topographical map written on the child, and it takes a lifetime to read.
There’s nothing as invigorating as that split second of terror that it’s really all over.
Immortality is the great delusion of youth. Enjoy it.[to Nadia]
Holding two incompatible ideas in your head at the same time and accepting both of them, that’s the best of being human. Yes-no, good-bad, life-death.
