Awareness Quote by Jean Houston

“When we believe a wounding story, our whole world is diminished.”

— Sharon Salzberg

“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

“Always one of the trials of a new wound: old wounds like to rise up and start hurting again, too.”

— Kristin Cashore

“We carry our wounds and perhaps even worse, our capacity to wound, forward with us. If we learn not only to tell our stories…

— Patricia Hampl

“What we notice in stories is the nearness of the wound to the gift.”

— Jeanette Winterson

“Some wounds never heal, and that man has just taken such a wounding.”

— Steven Erikson

“We all are wounded, we all are healers. Time changes, role changes.”

— Shon Mehta

“All worthwhile tales possess some element of violence.”

— Marisha Pessl

“A shattered narrative is still a narrative. We can't escape it, it is what we are.”

— Jill Talbot

“Story is the bandage of the broken. Sutures of the shattered. The tapestry upon which we write our lives. Upon which we lay the…

— Charles Martin

“But a violent act is an epicenter; it shakes everyone within reach and creates other stories, cracks open the earth and reveals buried secrets.…

— Sarah Perry

“Time makes a wound fester and rot, magnifying the pain into brooding despair”

— Tobias Wade