Best Family Trauma Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“You are indeed teaching me about kinds of love I did not know. It is like looking into a deep pit. I'm not sure whether I like your kind better than hatred. Oh, Orual- to take my love for you, because you know it goes down to my very roots and cannot be diminished by any other newer love, and then to make of it a tool, a weapon, a thing of policy and mastery, an instrument of torture- I begin to think I never knew you. Whatever comes after, something that was between us dies here.”

Love Obsession Manipulation Sisterhood Family Trauma

Book:Till We Have Faces

Source: Till We Have Faces

“It must have seemed to them that some monster had appeared in their midst in the shape and body of a child—a demonic little figure who threatened to subvert and undermine all that they were seeking to build. No wonder then that their response was to repress, contain, punish. No wonder that Mama would say to me, now and then, exasperated, frustrated, "I don't know where I got you from, but I sure wish I could give you back." Imagine then if you will, my childhood pain. I did not feel truly connected to these strange people, to these familial folks who could not only fail to grasp my worldview but who just simply did not want to hear it.”

Family Childhood Trauma Family Trauma

Book:Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

Source: Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

“I wish I could run free with the horses and never again be the daughter of dropped miracles.”

Pain Hope Longing Addiction Insight Promises Inspirational Grief Family Trauma Wistfulness

Author:Tiffany McDaniel, On the Savage Side

“Her definition of love was obligation and guilt.”

Abuse Toxicity Family Trauma

Book:The Pale-Faced Lie

Source: The Pale-Faced Lie

“Never venture near the toxic family war zone without your security detail of angels, spirit guides, and ancestors by your side.”

Family Trauma Toxic Family Family Legacy Family Scapegoat Spiritual Protection Energy Protection Empowered Empath Narcissistic Families Ancestral Wounds Dysfuntional Families

Author:Anthon St. Maarten

“I closed my eyes and wished the way I felt in that moment, lucky and loved, could last forever.”

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Book:Enemy: A True Story of Courage, Childhood Trauma and the Cost of War

Source: Enemy: A True Story of Courage, Childhood Trauma and the Cost of War

“Though I was sure she’d never noticed it, I had spent my whole life doing what I could to protect her. I didn’t know if she could survive without me. I didn’t know who I would be if she no longer needed me to stand guard.”

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Book:Enemy: A True Story of Courage, Childhood Trauma and the Cost of War

Source: Enemy: A True Story of Courage, Childhood Trauma and the Cost of War

“It felt like someone had waved a magic wand over my life, wiping out the mother I had known before. I wasn’t sure which one was the dream – the person she had been when Dad was living with us, or the one she was now.”

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Book:Enemy: A True Story of Courage, Childhood Trauma and the Cost of War

Source: Enemy: A True Story of Courage, Childhood Trauma and the Cost of War

“He drained her of self worth: death by a thousand cuts. Snide little comments, rolling eyes and always that tone in his voice, the one that told her how worthless she was.”

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Book:Enemy: A True Story of Courage, Childhood Trauma and the Cost of War

Source: Enemy: A True Story of Courage, Childhood Trauma and the Cost of War

“I felt my throat ache and knew it was her sadness I swallowed down”

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Book:Enemy: A True Story of Courage, Childhood Trauma and the Cost of War

Source: Enemy: A True Story of Courage, Childhood Trauma and the Cost of War

“I told myself fear would not control me and searched for ways to prove to myself I was the one who held the power.”

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Author:Ruth Clare

“People could see whatever they wanted to see on the outside, but if they scratched the surface they would find I too pulsed with dangerous power. This was my secret. This was my weapon. This was what would get me through.”

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Book:Enemy: A True Story of Courage, Childhood Trauma and the Cost of War

Source: Enemy: A True Story of Courage, Childhood Trauma and the Cost of War

“Every good trait has its shadow side.”

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Book:Enemy: A True Story of Courage, Childhood Trauma and the Cost of War

Source: Enemy: A True Story of Courage, Childhood Trauma and the Cost of War

“If all the bruises and pain Dad had marked me with over the years formed a permanent stain, people like Moustache Man might shut the hell up about what a great father I had.”

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Book:Enemy: A True Story of Courage, Childhood Trauma and the Cost of War

Source: Enemy: A True Story of Courage, Childhood Trauma and the Cost of War