“It was an epiphany, the kind only a horrible trauma can induce.”
“This ability to exist in pieces is what some adults call resilience. And I suppose in some way it is a kind of resilience, a horrible resilience that makes adults believe children forget trauma.”
“The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma.”
“Sometimes a breakdown can be the beginning of a kind of breakthrough, a way of living in advance through a trauma that prepares you for a future of radical transformation.”
“Without the quest, there can be no epiphany.”
“Sorry, but the whole walking corpse epiphany kind of threw me off my game.”