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  • #1
    Leslye Walton
    “Children betrayed their parents by becoming their own people.”
    Leslye Walton, The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender

  • #2
    Maya Angelou
    “You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #3
    William Makepeace Thackeray
    “If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relative to do the business.”
    William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

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  • #5
    Brady Udall
    “...Families are Forever, and wondered if the slogan was meant as a promise or a threat.”
    Brady Udall, The Lonely Polygamist

  • #6
    Confucius
    “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
    Confucius

  • #11
    Confucius
    “The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”
    Confucius, Confucius: The Analects

  • #12
    A.A. Milne
    “Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.”
    A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

  • #14
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.”
    Jean Paul Sartre

  • #15
    Oscar Wilde
    “I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #17
    Danielle Bernock
    “Trauma is personal. It does not disappear if it is not validated. When it is ignored or invalidated the silent screams continue internally heard only by the one held captive.”
    Danielle Bernock, Emerging With Wings: A True Story of Lies, Pain, And The LOVE that Heals

  • #17
    Mary Anne Radmacher
    “Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow.”
    Mary Anne Radmacher

  • #18
    Michele Jaffe
    “Don't let them make you doubt yourself. All the greatest visionaries in history have been told they were insane at some point.”
    Michele Jaffe, Rosebush

  • #18
    Lois Lowry
    “Be proud of your pain, for you are stronger than those with none.”
    Lois Lowry, Gathering Blue

  • #19
    Lois Lowry
    “It was terrifying, almost unbelievable, the casualness of the cruelty.”
    Lois Lowry, Gathering Blue

  • #20
    Jessica Stern
    “Some people's lives seem to flow in a narrative; mine had many stops and starts. That's what trauma does. It interrupts the plot. You can't process it because it doesn't fit with what came before or what comes afterwards.”
    Jessica Stern

  • #21
    Michele Jaffe
    “It takes someone really brave to confess they're wrong and try to make it right" -Pete”
    Michele Jaffe, Rosebush

  • #21
    Paulo Coelho
    “The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”
    Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

  • #23
    “Triggers are like little psychic explosions that crash through avoidance and bring the dissociated, avoided trauma suddenly, unexpectedly, back into consciousness.”
    Carolyn Spring

  • #23
    Kristin Hannah
    “Finding your passion isn't just about careers and money. It's about finding your authentic self. The one you've buried beneath other people's needs.”
    Kristin Hannah, Distant Shores

  • #25
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
    Rumi

  • #25
    “Part of being successful is about asking questions and listening to the answers.”
    Anne Burrell

  • #26
    L.M. Montgomery
    “How are you going to find out about things if you don't ask questions?”
    L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

  • #26
    Atticus  .
    “She was powerful
    not because she wasn’t scared
    but because
    she went on so strongly
    despite the fear.”
    Atticus Poetry, The Dark Between Stars

  • #26
    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

  • #28
    “We awaken by asking the right questions.”
    Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

  • #28
    Atticus  .
    “She wasn't looking for a knight, she was looking for a sword. ”
    Atticus Poetry

  • #29
    Naomi Alderman
    “The way we think about our past informs what we think is possible today.”
    Naomi Alderman, The Power

  • #30
    Stephen  King
    “No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side.

    Or you don't.”
    Stephen King, The Stand

  • #32
    Susanna Kaysen
    “I told her once I wasn’t good at anything. She told me survival is a talent.”
    Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted



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