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“Who am I? Who am I?”
“You’re Jude St. Francis. You are my oldest, dearest friend. You’re the son of Harold Stein and Julia Altman. You’re the friend of Malcolm Irvine, of Jean-Baptiste Marion, of Richard Goldfarb, of Andy Contractor, of Lucien Voigt, of Citizen van Straaten, of Rhodes Arrowsmith, of Elijah Kozma, of Phaedra de los Santos, of the Henry Youngs. You’re a New Yorker. You live in SoHo. You volunteer for an arts organization; you volunteer for a food kitchen. You’re a swimmer. You’re a baker. You’re a cook. You’re a reader. You have a beautiful voice, though you never sing anymore. You’re an excellent pianist. You’re an art collector. You write me lovely messages when I’m away. You’re patient. You’re generous. You’re the best listener I know. You’re the smartest person I know, in every way. You’re the bravest person I know, in every way. You’re a lawyer. You’re the chair of the litigation department at Rosen Pritchard and Klein. You love your job; you work hard at it. You’re a mathematician. You’re a logician. You’ve tried to teach me, again and again. You were treated horribly. You came out on the other end. You were always you.”

"And who are you?"
"I'm Willem Ragnarsson. And I will never let you go.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“I’ve had a lot of lives too. And none of them belong to me anymore either.”
― Abby Jimenez, Just for the Summer

“Sometimes your traumas are the reason you know how to help.”
― Abby Jimenez, Just for the Summer

“I wondered if she got tired of saying goodbye.”
― Abby Jimenez, Just for the Summer

“I felt full of cracks all of a sudden. Deep, long, jagged cracks. And they’d always been there. I’d just learned to live with them so long I no longer noticed them. I’d hopped over them and built little bridges and taken other routes, but I never filled them. I never fixed them. I didn’t even know how.”
― Abby Jimenez, Just for the Summer

“Being mature enough to know your limits, and adult enough to accept when someone tells you what they are. Even if it breaks your heart.”
― Abby Jimenez, Just for the Summer

“Perhaps wounded healers are effective because they are more able to empathize with the wounds of the patient; perhaps it is because they participate more deeply and personally in the healing process.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients

“But if we hope for more significant therapeutic change, we must encourage our patients to assume responsibility—that is, to apprehend how they themselves contribute to their distress.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients

“If you were a teenage male,” the commentator began, pointing a leering finger back at the photo, “would you call a sexual experience with her abuse?”
― Alissa Nutting, Tampa

“Behind every successful therapist is another therapist supporting them.”
― Nicole Arzt, Sometimes Therapy Is Awkward: A Collection of Life-Changing Insights for the Modern Clinician

“Therapy remains beautifully and stubbornly flawed because humans are beautifully and stubbornly flawed.”
― Nicole Arzt, Sometimes Therapy Is Awkward: A Collection of Life-Changing Insights for the Modern Clinician

“We’re all going to die. But before we do that, we need to learn how to live.”
― Nicole Arzt, Sometimes Therapy Is Awkward: A Collection of Life-Changing Insights for the Modern Clinician

“Sometimes, to understand your present, you have to look into the past.”
― Iliana Xander, Love, Mom