“Then I stumbled upon Max and Dave Fleischer’s Superman cartoons. They were beautiful, even a small black and white TV. The scene that lit up my brain like a Christmas tree showed Superman use his cape to protect Lois Lane from a cascade of molten metal. Rather than being angry at her for getting in trouble, he was gentle and brave and saved her. I imprinted on that moment like a baby duck and my child’s mind folded around a sudden understanding.
No, Superman was never going to be my father but if I worked at it really hard maybe day could become Superman. (32)”
Source: Becoming Superman: My Journey from Poverty to Hollywood with Stops Along the Way at Murder, Madness, Mayhem, Movie Stars, Cults, Slums, Sociopaths, and War Crimes
“The memory of her vanishing felt both unpleasant to encounter and dangerous to hold, but I had no place to put it, no ordered shelf in my mind where it belonged. It remained unmentionable and therefore unclassifiable, which meant I had to carry it, every day, no matter how much it hurt.”
Source: When Women Were Dragons
“The sofa is a mountain to climb, a valley for sleeping in, a place of ambush for surprise attacks on passing parents.”
Source: Obasan
“Here is something that she controls, here is something that responds to her with the kind of frantic immediacy she always wanted from the world”
Source: Just Like Home
“And I think, one of the reasons I've stayed in Italy is that I believe, perhaps erroneously, perhaps sentimentally, perhaps merely in reaction to my own childhood of church bells and rainy weekends - I do believe that kids have a better time here, that adolescence is more fun here. Certainly I never saw a group of people so confident and at ease with themselves and their youth. I wish it for my children.”
Source: An Italian Education
“The subsistence mentality of a person is a prison in which his personal joy is detained. If you want to live in joy, you don't live for yourself alone. Live for others too!”
“Θυμάστε πως ήταν ο Απρίλης στα παιδικά σας χρόνια, θυμάστε εκείνη την αίσθηση ρευστής ορμής, τον άνεμο να σαρώνει με το φτυάρι τον γαλανό αέρα και τα πουλιά εκτός εαυτού πάνω στα ανθισμένα δέντρα;”
Source: Ancient Light
“It’s a contradiction: Kids have to be taught how to use tools that will help them reduce their work-time, without it actually reducing their work-time.”
Source: Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials
“Emotional neglect in childhood leads to a painful emotional loneli-ness that can have a long-term negative impact on a person’s choices regarding relationships and intimate partners.”
Source: Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents / Recovering from Emotionally Immature Parents
“the pain and confusion that come from having a parent who refuses emotional intimacy”
Source: Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents / Recovering from Emotionally Immature Parents