Affecting Quote by Erik Pevernagie

“Whatever the surface appearances, most human beings come equipped with convoluted emotional machinery. With intimacy, the wreckage starts to show, damage rendered in the…

— Sue Grafton

But, in addition, there is, all through the tragedy, a constant alternation of rises and falls in this tension or in the emotional pitch…

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

“When those fault lines inside of us quake on account of all that is built up and unkempt between two people in love—on account…

— Durga Chew-Bose

“When one's life has been shattered into a million pieces, most set out to pick up the pieces & rebuild. Others look at those…

— Sanjo Jendayi

We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.

— Samuel Goldwyn

“Some events are so harrowing, they either shape who we become or we move past them. They either break us entirely, or we pick…

— Rachel Thompson

“In moments of crisis it helps to take the long view.”

— Arundhati Roy

“Everyone has that moment I think, the moment when something so momentous happens that it rips your very being into small pieces. And then…

— Kathleen Glasgow

“Trauma is any terrifying event that instantly changes the world as we know it, leaving us helpless and emotionally overwhelmed.”

— Sue Johnson

“upswelling of emotionally relevant material”

— Gail Albert

“A traumatic experience is a seismic event that shakes our belief in a just world, robbing us of the sense that life is controllable,…

— Sheryl Sandberg

“To pass from the extremes of danger to safety-from the tumult of war to the tranquility of peace, though sweet in contemplation, requires a…

— Thomas Paine