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“The mother was convinced that the purchase of this piece of furniture would facilitate the bond she so hungered for with Gabriela, although she hated the unnerving history associated with the paravent. But, she thought, what could it possibly do to a child?”

Imagination Threat Motherhood Projection Decadence Antiques Within Paravent Walls

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“Revolted and offended, this child was fighting her mother in her head and did not even blink.”

Silence Childhood Trauma Motherhood Fury Reproach Antagonism Within Paravent Walls

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“They had been the reason for the receding love between her and her husband. She claimed a substitution for her sacrifices, an amendment of her situation.”

Silence Violence Sacrifice Guilt Motherhood Wrath Toxicity Within Paravent Walls

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“Gabriela's pupils were immoveable tempests, dark tunnels spiraling down into invisibility, terrifying the mother. They sat still amongst the greenish-brown puddle and attacked Estefania in total muteness.”

Silence Violence Childhood Anger Blame Motherhood Eyes Antagonism Within Paravent Walls

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“She could taste her children on her tongue, the colors they wore. Jacqueline was yellow. Gunnar was blue. Gabriela had always been red. All their weight. Their history inside of her. And she remembered her mother's synesthesia and was startled as guilt crept up her throat.”

Childhood Guilt Trauma Motherhood Pregnancy Within Paravent Walls Synesthesia

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“Overwhelmed, she surrendered to impending motherhood, terrorized by fears and doubts, reflecting about her own mother whom she saw as an agent of trauma transferal and as the ever-expanding root in a vicious female circle.”

Trauma Motherhood Pregnancy Decadence Female Body Within Paravent Walls Vicious Circle

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“She knew those horrid words were addressed to her. They felt like the icy tip of an arrow meant to conjure up destruction, coming from the most venomous abyss imaginable, rammed right into her chest with the utmost authority, entitlement, and pleasure.”

Pain Ego Words Trauma Motherhood Narcissism Vexation Within Paravent Walls

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“No one could decrypt a mother better than her own children, who had shared her body and therefore knew all of her secrets, anxieties, shortcomings, and buttons to push. Estefania feared nothing more than the betrayal of someone she accommodated and gave life to with her scarce resources.”

Motherhood Mental Illness Fears Paranoia Doubts Insecurities Within Paravent Walls

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“When she reached out to the little girl in her, nothing erupted but the dense muteness of her own children in her belly. She felt helpless, alienated from her mirror-image, perceiving her body as a shallow vessel, possessed by human beings that she never met, draining her energy and suppressing her proper self, which she considered absent again.”

Violence Identity Trauma Motherhood Pregnancy Fears Doubts Within Paravent Walls

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“Estefania tried to deracinate the hostile voices that pottered around her mind, yet she felt threatened and paranoid, lamenting the state she had put herself in.”

Trauma Motherhood Mental Illness Pregnancy Fears Decadence Doubts Voices Within Paravent Walls

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“She was now more than ever confronted with the outward cries of help that leaped at her like an overflowing bathtub where the water had grown cold and rancid. The catastrophe had caught up with her. It had always been there, a re-emerging siren in scarlet tones, a temptation of the abysmal artillery of the brain, a carousel waltzing with crazed horses, the heel-clicking and tap-dancing back chambers where arthropods lay on their carapaces.”

Violence Motherhood Mental Illness Agony Helplessness Lethargy Within Paravent Walls

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“The boundaries were destroyed; it was all in the open, the rotting animal of her soul, the tickling sickness in the tumultuous cacophony in her mother's vibrating skull that spoke only to itself in everlasting distortions.”

Soul Tragedy Motherhood Mental Illness Cacophony Within Paravent Walls

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