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Source: Lover Avenged: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood

“Because immigrants have always been particularly prone to repetition - it's something to do with that experience of moving from West to East or East to West or from island to island. Even when you arrive, you're still going back and forth; your children are going round and round. There's no proper term for it - original sin seems too harsh; maybe original trauma would be better.”

Children Stills Seems Would Be Moving Term Sin Originals West Rounds Trauma East Your Children Islands Immigrants Harsh Repetition Back And Forth Original Sin

Book:White Teeth

Source: White Teeth

“You are suffering from an ailment that affects ladies of romantic imaginations. Symptoms include fainting, weariness, loss of appetite, low spirits. While on one level the crisis can be ascribed to wandering about in freezing rain without the benefit of adequate waterproofing, the deeper cause is more likely to be found in some emotional trauma. However, unlike the heroines of your favorite novels, your constitution has not been weakened by the privations of life in earlier, harsher centuries. No tuberculosis, no childhood polio, no unhygienic living conditions. You'll survive.' " pg. 303”

“There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.”

Shows Body Pain Sad Depression Mental Health Deeper Trauma Wounds Hurt Feelings Hurtful Feeling Depressed Help With Depression

Author:Laurell K. Hamilton

“Just remember, sometimes people will put you ahead of themselves. It does happen. (Leta) Yeah, the whole world is just rainbows and puppies. Boy Scouts really do help old ladies cross the street without mugging them and no one ever ignores a trauma victim’s screams. (Aiden)”

People World Doe Sometimes Whole Helping Happens Remember Boys Streets Crosses Victim Yeah Trauma Whole World Scream Rainbow Puppy Old Lady Boy Scout

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“Some people's lives seem to flow in a narrative; mine had many stops and starts. That's what trauma does. It interrupts the plot. You can't process it because it doesn't fit with what came before or what comes afterward. A friend of mine, a soldier, put it this way. In most of our lives, most of the time, you have a sense of what is to come. There is a steady narrative, a feeling of "lights, camera, action" when big events are imminent. But trauma isn't like that. It just happens, and then life goes on. No one prepares you for it.”

People Way Doe Feelings Bigs Light Seems Happens Action Process Our Lives Events Mines Goes On Fit Flow Cameras Soldier Trauma Narrative Plot Steady Life Goes On Big Events

Author:Jessica Stern

“It didn't take a trauma to make you wear a mask. It didn't take your parents getting shot...or cosmic rays or a power ring...Just the perfect combination of loneliness and despair.”

Parent Perfect Loneliness Despair Shots Trauma Rings Combination Mask Rays Cosmic Perfect Combination Cosmic Rays

Author:Mark Millar

“Let's say someone has experienced a violent trauma or betrayal: a child has been raped by a parent or has witnessed the destruction of someone he loves or has been so traumatized by the possibility of beatings and punishments that he's afraid to act. If the trauma is great enough, that person's life may become frozen, emotionally frozen even though he still gets up in the morning, is busy all day, and goes to bed at night. But there's this empty space that begins to fill with rage, rage toward everyone - the perpetrator, the people in the world who haven't suffered, even toward himself. (174)”

Source: Boy in the Water: A Novel

“This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe resting place for our most complicated feelings of joy or trauma, so that we don't have to haul those feelings around with us forever, weighing us down.”

Source: The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims

“Witty closing remarks have been replaced by massive head trauma and severe hemorrhaging.”

Has Beens Witty Trauma Massive Replaced Severe Remarks Closing

Author:Jhonen Vasquez

“This ability to exist in pieces is what some adults call resilience. And I suppose in some way it is a kind of resilience, a horrible resilience that makes adults believe children forget trauma.”

Way Believe Kind Children Ability Forget Pieces Adults Trauma Resilience Horrible

Author:Lynda Barry

“Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion.”

Source: The Dresden Files Collection 7-12

“Happiness in a tablet. This is our world. Prozac. Daxil. Xanax. Billions are spent to advertise such drugs. And billions are spent purchasing them. You don't even need a specific trauma, just 'general depression' is enough, or anxiety, as if sadness is as treatable as the common cold.”

Ifs World Needs Enough Common Sadness Cold Drug Anxiety Trauma Billions Our World Tablets Purchasing Prozac Common Cold Xanax

Author:Mitch Albom

“Trauma is survivable, but often not much more. It kills you while allowing you to still live.”

Stills Trauma Allowing

Author:James Frey

“The trauma said, ‘Don’t write these poems. Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones.”

Want Writing Said Grief Cry Trauma Bones

Author:Andrea Gibson

“I'd killed him in the end, but revenge only makes things all better in the movies. In real life, once the villain is dead the trauma lives on inside the victims.”

Real Ends Victim Trauma Revenge Real Life Villain

Book:Bullet

Source: Bullet

“The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma.”

Events Conflict Deny Trauma Horrible Psychological Denial Dissociation Dialectics Psychological Trauma

Author:Judith Lewis Herman

“Then again, he supposed the healing process, in contrast to trauma, was gentle and slow... The soft closing of a door, rather than a slam.- John”

Process Healing Doors Trauma Gentle Contrast Closing Slam Healing Process

Author:J.R. Ward

“I believe in fiction and the power of stories because that way we speak in tongues. We are not silenced. All of us, when in deep trauma, find we hesitate, we stammer; there are long pauses in our speech. The thing is stuck. We get our language back through the language of others. We can turn to the poem. We can open the book. Somebody has been there for us and deep-dived the words.”

Way Believe Long Has Beens Book Stories Turns Speak Language I Believe Fiction Speech I Believe In Trauma Tongue Stuck Pauses Power Of Stories

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.”

Fear Water Stones Bottom Trauma Ponds

Author:Arthur Golden

“Unforgiveness denies the victim the possibility of parole and leaves them stuck in the prison of what was, incarcerating them in their trauma and relinquishing the chance to escape beyond the pain.”

Pain Chance Possibility Victim Prison Deny Trauma Stuck Parole Relinquishing

Book:Let It Go: Forgive So You Can Be Forgiven

Source: Let It Go: Forgive So You Can Be Forgiven

“...and trauma had a way of burning memories deeper into the mind.”

Way Mind Memories Deeper Trauma Burning

Book:The Lost Symbol Illustrated edition

Source: The Lost Symbol Illustrated edition

“Some people's lives seem to flow in a narrative; mine had many stops and starts. That's what trauma does. It interrupts the plot. You can't process it because it doesn't fit with what came before or what comes afterwards.”

People Doe Seems Process Mines Fit Anxiety Flow Trauma Narrative Plot Ptsd

Author:Jessica Stern

“Water-boarding can result in damage to the lungs and the brain, as well as long-term psychological trauma.”

Wells Long Term Water Results Brain Trauma Psychological Long Term Damage Lungs Psychological Trauma

Author:Graydon Carter

“We're hallucinating. And that's what this world is: a mass hallucination, where fear seems more real than love. Fear is an illusion. Our craziness, paranoia, anxiety and trauma are literally all imagined.”

World Real Seems This World Anxiety Mass Illusion Trauma Paranoia Craziness Hallucinations Fear Of Love

Book:A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles

Source: A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles

“It was a catch-22: If you didn’t put the trauma behind you, you couldn’t move on. But if you did put the trauma behind you, you willingly gave up your claim to the person you were before it happened.”

Ifs Persons Moving Behinds Happened Claims Trauma Gave Up Behind You

Book:The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes

Source: The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes

“Clinical psychology tells us arguably that trauma is the ultimate killer.Memories r not recycled like atoms and particles in quantum physics. they can be lost forever. It’s sort of like my past is an unfinished painting and as the artist of that painting,I must fill in all the ugly holes and make it beautiful again.”

Past Beautiful Artist Lost Memories Forever Psychology Painting Ultimate Ugly Trauma Physics Holes Atoms Killers Quantum Particles My Past Quantum Physics Unfinished Clinicals Recycled

Author:Lady Gaga

“Our gazes locked, so much passing between us. In those moments, I wasn't in a tent with him, on the run from those who regarded us as villains. There was no murderer to catch, no Strigoi trauma to overcome. There was just him and me and the feelings that had burned between us for so long.”

Long Moments Feelings Running Overcoming Trauma Passing Passings Villain Locked Burned Murderer Tents

Book:Last Sacrifice: A Vampire Academy Novel

Source: Last Sacrifice: A Vampire Academy Novel

“The trauma of the Sixties persuaded me that my generation's egalitarianism was a sentimental error. I now see the hierarchical as both beautiful and necessary. Efficiency liberates; egalitarianism tangles, delays, blocks, deadens.”

Beautiful Generations Errors Equality Trauma Block Sixty Efficiency Sentimental Delay My Generation Egalitarianism

Author:Camille Paglia

“Our moral responsibility is not to stop future, but to shape it...to channel our destiny in humane directions and to ease the trauma of transition.”

Responsibility Moral Destiny Future Shapes Trauma Ease Transition Our Destiny Humane Moral Responsibility

Author:Alvin Toffler

“The real self of an artiste lies in art, so when an artiste performs, all the pain, trauma and tension get released through art, be it dancing, painting, singing, writing or even martial arts.”

Writing Art Real Self Pain Lying Painting Singing Art Is Dancing Dance Trauma Release Performing Tension Martial Arts Real Self Choreographers

Author:Mrinalini Sarabhai

“In this time of globalization, with all its advantages, the poor are the most vulnerable to having their traditions, relationships and knowledge and skills ignored and denigrated, and experiencing development with a great sense of trauma, loss and social disconnectedness.”

Culture Social Loss Poor Development Skills Advantage Tradition Trauma Vulnerable Ignored Globalization Disconnectedness

Author:James Wolfensohn

“At the worst it was eight hours of makeup, and I couldn't sit down; I was in this crouched position. [on the traumas of being an actor in full make up]”

Actors Hours Worst Position Eight Trauma Makeup

Author:Jim Caviezel

“Sometimes we forget to be grateful until we survive a trauma. For example, after having the flu when you ache all over, throw up for hours, and have little people pounding in your head with hammers, it is sheer bliss just to eat a piece of toast, walk outside without getting dizzy, and breathe fresh air. Part of the journey toward joy involves not waiting around for trouble, but being continuously aware of our blessings.”

“It is true that many creative people fail to make mature personal relationships, and some are extremely isolated. It is also true that, in some instances, trauma, in the shape of early separation or bereavement, has steered the potentially creative person toward developing aspects of his personality which can find fulfillment in comparative isolation. But this does not mean that solitary, creative pursuits are themselves pathological.”

Source: Solitude: A Return to the Self

“Though she doesn't remember any trauma, she said that her parents told her she cried on a daily basis and her grandmother resorted to passing out candy so the kids would play with her. Though it was a humorous moment, Mila said, "I know, God bless her. She's an amazing, amazing woman."”

Knows Said Play Moments Kids Remember Parent Humorous Bases Trauma Passing Passings Grandmother Bless Cried Candy Knowing God Grandma God Bless Amazing Woman Passing Out

Author:Mila Kunis

“A sound-bite culture can't discuss science very well. Exactly what we're losing when we reduce biodiversity, the causes and consequences of global warming-these traumas can't be adequately summarized in an evening news wrap-up.”

Wells Culture Causes Sound News Losing Consequence Trauma Evening Global Warming Bites Wraps Biodiversity Sound Bites Causes Of Global Warming

Book:Small Wonder

Source: Small Wonder

“Poetry springs directly from our primal need and capacity for communication[Poetry] mobilizes such a concentration of devices, such an intensification of language via rhythm, syntax, image and metaphor. Reading it-the best of it-can create another, very different kind of perpetual present, an awareness that can be as ongoing in the soul as the stop-time of trauma.”

Needs Kind Different Soul Reading Language Awareness Communication Spring Capacity Metaphor Trauma Rhythm Concentration Devices Different Kinds Perpetual Ongoing Primal Syntax Stop Time

Author:Sven Birkerts

“The Crosby family is sort of legendary for all of its traumas and familial problems, even though it has this appearance of being this perfect world. It had quite a dark side to it.”

World Problem Sides Dark Perfect Appearance Trauma Dark Side Legendary A Perfect World Crosby

Author:Denise Crosby

“I don't carry any early childhood trauma around with me, if that's what you're hinting at. The story of the bicycles - and there were three of them which were stolen from me - I've dealt with it well.”

Ifs Wells Stories Three Childhood Trauma Stolen Bicycle Childhood Trauma Early Childhood

Author:Angela Merkel

“At least I've had to come to that in my life, to realize that this stuff called failure, this stuff, this debris of historical trauma, family trauma, you know, stuff that can kill your spirit, is actually raw material to make things with and to build a bridge. You can use those materials to build a bridge over that which would destroy you.”

Knows Use Spirit Stuff Realizing Materials Historical Trauma Bridges Raw Materials Debris

Author:Joy Harjo

“Sometimes a breakdown can be the beginning of a kind of breakthrough, a way of living in advance through a trauma that prepares you for a future of radical transformation.”

Way Kind Sometimes Transformation Trauma Radical Breakthrough Breakdown Break Through

Author:Cherrie Moraga

“I've seen people recover physical abilities, yet never get over emotional trauma after a serious accident. I've seen other people overcome the psychological and emotional trauma of a serious illness even though they may never fully regain their physical capabilities. Which is the greater healing? Which is the better recovery? If I had the option of choosing between a mediocre life with eyesight or the life I have today, even though I am blind, I'd stay blind and keep the life I have.”

“I can't find the compulsory mutilation of the genitals of children a subject for humor... It's designed to repress sexual pleasure... The full excision, not just the snip but the full mandatory covenant is fantastically painful, leads to trauma, leads to the dulling of the sexual relationship. And can be, in itself life-threatening at that moment. We have records, I can show them to you, of hundreds and hundreds and hundreds in the United States of boy babies who died or had life-threatening infections as a result of this disgusting practice.”

“Women are the victims of war... as widows they've faced the trauma of being single parents and livelihoods of families are affected. A lot of gender-related problems come up in terms of health, education, domestic violence, etc.”

“Emergency rooms are closed, many hospital wards are as well leaving people who are sick with heart disease, trauma, pregnancy complications, pneumonia, malaria and all the everyday health emergencies with nowhere to go.”

“I began to speak well at a very advanced age - 15, 16, 17 years old. It was psychological: the trauma of war, my family and growing up on my own. I was more or less a street kid.”

Years Wells War Kids Age Speak My Own Growing Up Growing Streets My Family Trauma Psychological

Author:Roberto Cavalli

“In Maybe I Will, Laurie Gray writes about important topics that teens need to talk about, including sexual assault, friendship, and alcoholism or self-destructive behaviors that result from trauma. Maybe I Will may help some teens know they're not alone.”

“You need to take the traumas and make them part of who you've come to be, and you need to fold the worst events of your life into a narrative of triumph, evincing a better self in response to things that hurt.”

Needs Self Motivational Hurt Worst Events Response Trauma Triumph Narrative Folds

Author:Andrew Solomon

“The more healthy relationships a child has, the more likely he will be to recover from trauma and thrive. Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love.”

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