Character Quote by Geoffrey S. Fletcher

Most incarcerated women have stories that are similar to mine. They suffered great trauma as children.

— Susan Burton

You are always working towards the moments in which characters experience reckonings or insight or change. I like to track them past those moments.

— Dana Spiotta

In my books my characters experience things as they are. My books allow youth an honest look at important issues affecting them. As adults…

— Ellen Hopkins

To this day, that's what I love the most: finding and playing characters who are out of my experience.

— David Morse

It would have been great if there were a trauma center located in our community, where you could access grief counseling and be able…

— Susan Burton

The psychological trauma of losing a job can be as great as the trauma of a divorce.

— Barbara Ehrenreich

“We have all been fooled into believing in people who are entirely imaginary--made-up prisoners in a hypothetical panopticon. But the point isn't whether or…

— Robyn Schneider

“It’s hard to feel supported when you can’t tell people everything. People haven’t really got a clue what it’s like. It’s hard to trust…

— Alice Jamieson

The second noble truth states that we must discover why we are suffering. We must cultivate the courage to look deeply, with clarity and…

— Peter A. Levine

“no recovery from trauma is possible without attending to issues of safety, care for the self, reparative connections to other human beings, and a…

— Janina Fisher

“In Kant’s description, ethical duty functions like a foreign traumatic intruder that from the outside disturbs the subject’s homeostatic balance, its unbearable pressure forcing…

— Slavoj Žižek

“While trauma keeps us dumbfounded, the path out of it is paved with words, carefully assembled, piece by piece, until the whole story can…

— Bessel A. van der Kolk