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“Never feel like you need to visit him, ever?" "I see him every morning in the mirror. I think of him as the ghost version of me. And who needs to visit your own ghost?”

Book:All You Never Wanted

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All You Never Wanted

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Adele Griffin

Adele Griffin, born on July 29, 1970, is an accomplished literary critic. Her work spans a wide range of literary genres, including novels, poetry, and drama. Griffin is known for her profound analysis and insightful observations, and her critical writings are highly regarded by both academics and the general reading public. more

“Nothing worse... nothing worse that to be stuck somewhere with some married a-hole and have to listen to him tell you about his f***in' kids... Let me tell ya something, folks... nobody cares about your children, okay?" Nobody cares about your children. I speak for everyone. I've been appointed by the rest of the group to inform you we don't care about your children – that's why they're your children, so you can care about them and we don't have to bother.”

Parents Child Worship Cynisym

Author:George Carlin

“Just as verbally and physically abused children internalize blame, so do incest victims. However, in incest, the blame is compounded by the shame. The belief that ‘it’s all my fault’ is never more intense than with the incest victim. This belief fosters strong feelings of self-loathing and shame. In addition to having somehow to cope with the actual incest, the victim must now guard against being caught and exposed as a ‘dirty, disgusting’ person”

Children Feelings Belief Healing Family Depression Shame Victim Mental Health Parents Anxious Toxic Fearful Incest Toxic Parents

Book:Toxic Parents: Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life

Source: Toxic Parents: Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life

“Can you taste it Bruce? Can you taste the filth, the dirt, the oily blackness of that fossil fuel in our mouth as you choke and gag and spit it out? Do you still hear his voice in your head urging you to eat? Eat, eat eat. Your mother's cries. Do you hear them? You should be Bruce. Because I know that it's never left you alone. Now you can eat what you want to eat. For me, for you, for all the others. Now you can consume to your heart's content or your soul's destruction, whichever comes first. So eat.”

Food Eating Parents Coal Eat Tapeworm

Book:Filth

Source: Filth

“He died at the wrong time, when there was much to be clarified and established. They hadn’t even started to be grown-ups together. There was this piece of heaven, this little girl he’d carried around the shop on his shoulders; and then one day she was gone, replaced by a foreigner, an uncooperative woman he didn’t know how to speak to. Being so confused, so weak, so in love, he chose strength and drove her away from himself. The last years he spent wondering where she’d gone, and slowly came to realise that she would never return, and that the husband he’d chosen for her was an idiot.”