“[U]nhappy families are conspiracies of silence. The one who breaks the silence is never forgiven. He or she has to learn to forgive him or herself.” SilenceDysfunctional FamiliesConspiracy Of SilenceUnhappy Families Author:Jeanette Winterson
“Her family was at least as dysfunctional and peculiar as his own, riven with scenes that to other people might've been epoch defining—'it was a month before Daddy torched Mummy's portrait in the hall, and the paneling caught fire, and the fire brigade came, and we all had to be evacuated via the upstairs windows'—but to the Campbells were so normalized they seemed routine.” AbuseChaoticDysfunctional FamiliesDysfunctionalFamily DysfunctionUnhappy Families Book:Troubled Blood Source: Troubled Blood