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“emotion is not opposed to reason;”
― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

“People who cannot connect through work, friendships, or family usually find other ways of bonding, as through illnesses, lawsuits, or family feuds. Anything is preferable to that godforsaken sense of irrelevance and alienation.”
― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

“True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“just outside San Francisco. “It’s called the Blue Heron Inn,” she told me. “It’s the most idyllic place I’ve ever seen. Romantic and cozy, with this roaring fire and lovely patio—just a few minutes from Muir Beach.”
― Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation

“...this is a real lesson in life. Yes, we got stuck, but what’d we girls do? We made it fun, we laughed. That’s what sisters and girlfriends are all about. Sticking together even in the mud, ‘specially in mud.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“In men and women with congestive heart failure, the state of the patient’s marriage is as good a predictor of survival after four years as the severity of the symptoms and degree of impairment,”
― Sue Johnson, Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love

“You can say things with food that you can’t quite with words sometimes.”
― Ashely Poston

“if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it’s stupid?”
― Abby Jimenez, Yours Truly

“It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.”
― James Baldwin