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Trauma Quotes

"Any relationship I've ever been in, any heartbreak, has been used by one incredible writer to write a new thing about terrorizing me and who I am"

"He who has been a soldier carries with him a memory mercilessly imprinted in him, and it will never leave him"

"You think you're the only one with a traumatic past?"

"Each person feels pain in his own way, each has his own bad memories"

"We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones"

"The healthy man does not torture others, generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers"

"Some old wounds never truly heal and bleed again at the slightest word"

"Children don’t get traumatized because they get hurt; children get traumatized because they’re alone with the hurt"

"Trauma is not what happens to you; it’s what happens inside you as a result of what happens to you"

"There are ways of being abandoned even when your parents are right there"

"Everyone has two memories. The one you can tell and the one that is stuck to the underside of that, the dark, tarry smear of what happened"

"We don’t get to witness who we might have been if trauma hadn’t shaped us this way"

"The greatest damage done by neglect, trauma, or emotional loss is not the immediate pain they inflict but the long-term distortions they induce in the way a developing child will continue to interpret the world and her situation in it"

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