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“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”
― Margaret Atwood

“Many abused children cling to the hope that growing up will bring escape and freedom.

But the personality formed in the environment of coercive control is not well adapted to adult life. The survivor is left with fundamental problems in basic trust, autonomy, and initiative. She approaches the task of early adulthood――establishing independence and intimacy――burdened by major impairments in self-care, in cognition and in memory, in identity, and in the capacity to form stable relationships.

She is still a prisoner of her childhood; attempting to create a new life, she reencounters the trauma.”
― Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

“Lately, I feel like my life is a book written in a language I don’t know how to read.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn Trilogy

“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson