Coping mechanisms Quote by Irina Semikop

“In my teens and early twenties, I often went clothes shopping with my mother and I could always see her dismay at where I…

— Roxane Gay

“When free from the confines of our normal identity, we are able to look at life, and the often repetitive stories we tell about…

— Steven Kotler

“I’m losing the appetite for strangers. Once I would have focused on the excitement, the hazard; now it’s the mess, the bother. Getting your…

— Margaret Atwood

“It's funny, I thought, how the routine of life goes on, whatever happens; we do the same things, go through the little performance of…

— Daphne du Maurier

“Here’s something about Mom: she’s bad with annoyances, but great in a crisis. If a waiter doesn’t refill her water after she’s asked three…

— Maria Semple

“I will teach my daughter not to wear her skin like a drunken apology. I will tell her ‘make a home out of your…

— Azra T

“The good stuff in me I got from my mom. I can joke, I can laugh, I can tease, I can celebrate and support…

— Gillian Flynn

“We all walk with our own story, our own secrets, our own damage, our own scars. Internal and external. Some of us just carry…

— K.L. Kreig

“Your skin tells the story of what happened to you on the outside. Others carry their scars on the inside, hidden from everyone but…

— Cynthia Luhrs

“Wear your life more lightly. There is a ridiculousness to much in ourselves and our lives; we notice this with startling clarity at times…

— Tony Crabbe

“The young are resilient.” “But scars remain.” “Sometimes, the scars are what make us who we are.”

— Nalini Singh

“It feels as though there is a gaping hole in the middle of everything. The decades of my mother's life here with Thalia, they…

— Khaled Hosseini