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was surprised that I had reacted to the past trauma with such emotion. I didn’t realize then that our bodies carry our trauma.
“It wasn't until years later that I saw her words for what they really meant. If people want to love you, they do, no matter how flawed you are. But if they aren't inclined to love you, nothing you say or do, no amount of your own goodness, can make them change their mind.”
― Slanting Towards the Sea
― Slanting Towards the Sea
“But going back to my maiden name felt like trying to wriggle myself into my old high school jeans. It didn't fit anymore, and suddenly I was a stranger to all my identities.”
― Slanting Towards the Sea
― Slanting Towards the Sea
“Your hands are cold," he said as if this had surprised him, and then he leaned in to kiss me. And when he did, something inside me reoriented itself, my world sotly tipping into his direction, as if he himself were the sea.”
― Slanting Towards the Sea
― Slanting Towards the Sea
“We must be willing to get rid the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.”
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“Human beings did so much damage to one another just by being alive. To the people they loved most, and to the ones they knew so little about that they could convince themselves they weren't even people.”
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