“It was only much later that I understood what had happened to them more thoroughly; and how the demoralising complications and compromises in their young lives ravaged their relationship. When they first left home, they do so together; they must have taken care of each other. Maybe they had an idea, halfway formed, that was going to make everything okay again; but it died, and now they had to carry it around and maybe it would be that way forever.” RegretTraumaBroken DreamsLoss Of InnocenceEmotional Scars Book:The Rider on the Bridge Source: The Rider on the Bridge
“To abandon through choice or misfortune did not matter. Regardless of the catalyst, a wound was a wound. His mother did not die to rebuke him, to renounce him, he would not say that she did; but she did.” GuiltTraumaGrief And LossWounds To The Heart Book:faded yellow by the winter Source: faded yellow by the winter