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“Lonely children probably wrote the bible”

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“Exactly, what form this alteration has taken. I will never know. I don't feel sedated, jittery or drugged. I simply feel normal-as if I had been driving a car all these years with the parking brake on, and now it is off. I feel as if the real me has returned, perhaps all the way from childhood, where she lived before The Beast arrived.”

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“He didn't want to put up with things as they were, but the other choice meant that he'd have to be his own mother, and how could you be your own mother when you were only twelve?”

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Book:About a Boy

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“The best and worst of childhood typically get carried over into adulthood. What you do and how you think now is informed by the collective stories of your past experiences.”

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“I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone?”

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Book:The Body

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“Loving my son, building my son, touching my son, playing with my son, being with my son… these aren’t tasks that only super dads can perform. These are tasks that every dad should perform. Always. Without fail.”

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Book:Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One

Source: Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One

“And beside the slides and the monkey bars of youth, the eternity of the swing lay like a forgotten child.”

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Book:Peter

Source: Peter

“When I was a child, I looked at rugs the same way, as a grown-up, I look at an abstract painting.”

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Book:Autoportrait

Source: Autoportrait

“Sam felt a peacefulness come over him when he was playing Donkey Kong in his grandparents' pizza parlor. When he could time the little Japanese Italian plumber's jumps and ascend the staircases at the right pace, it felt as if the universe was capable of being ordered. It felt as if it were possible to achieve a perfect timing. It felt like synchronicity.”

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Book:Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

Source: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“Most of us learn in childhood to "cope"--which is to say ignore, numb, manage, or reinterpret reality. We do it to survive, but our relational instincts get bent in the process.”

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Book:All In: How to Risk Everything for Everything that Matters

Source: All In: How to Risk Everything for Everything that Matters

“What these professing Christians are saying is that the reason for addiction is early childhood deprivation, not simply a sinful nature successfully tempted to sin.”

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Book:12 Steps to Destruction: Codependecy/Recovery Heresies

Source: 12 Steps to Destruction: Codependecy/Recovery Heresies