Photo, Snap, Shot Quotes

“did a couple more two-wheel screeching turns, ran a couple of orange lights (that’s when yellow turns red on you),”
― Joanna Campbell Slan, Photo, Snap, Shot

“We believe trauma survivors will look scarred and different. That they will wear their pain openly. But we’re wrong. Their struggle is not to get by, but to return to normal. Camouflage is not only a survival tactic for the animal world. It’s an important asset to the human species as well. It allows us—good and evil, whole and hurt, sane and unstable both—to blend in.

Because when we don’t blend in, when we stand apart, we’re at risk of being culled from the herd. It is when we stand alone that predators can pick us off.”
― Joanna Campbell Slan, Photo, Snap, Shot

“The worst part of being a parent is knowing you’ll make mistakes, and fearing them, and feeling the pain that accompanies the inevitability of letting your child down. But two people can better strategize. Two people can talk through the process. Two people can bear the disappointments more fully and comfort each other with the reminder “we did our best.”
― Joanna Campbell Slan, Photo, Snap, Shot

“but I remembered what a therapist once told me, “People like doing favors for each other. Don’t deny someone else the pleasure, Kiki, just because you can’t handle feeling obligated.”
― Joanna Campbell Slan, Photo, Snap, Shot