Enlightenment Quote by Kevin Wilson

“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

“Trauma is what happens to you, to your mind and perhaps to your soul, when you can neither fight nor flee.”

— Zachary Anderegg

“But what was making her unhappy? Where was the extraordinary catastrophe that had wrecked her life?She raised her head and looked around, as though…

— Gustave Flaubert

“It was an epiphany, the kind only a horrible trauma can induce.”

— Jacquelyn Mitchard

“She was a thinking child, and worked this out. It hurt her, unlike most knowledge, which was strength and pleasure.”

— A.S. Byatt

“Intimidated, old traumas triggered, and fearing for my safety, I did what I felt I needed to do.”

— Sierra D. Waters

“She knew a cutting, incisive, withering and above all a self-evident answer existed. It was just that, to her extreme annoyance, she couldn't quite…

— Terry Pratchett

“Still, she saw no point in asking why. Life had taught her that sometimes things simply happened.”

— Brandon Sanderson

“It shouldn’t have surprised her. Didn’t she know better than almost anyone what sort of filth humans were capable of? But it did, every…

— Stacia Kane

“All the trauma terrorized her feelings. She sensed them harden. Fade. Vanish. Her emotions decayed and disintegrated like a waning timeworn woman would forget…

— C.J. Anderson

“It was ridiculous of her to feel so wounded.”

— Anne Tyler

“I thought they were helping you through everything." "No," I say. "I was alone there." In her face something is shifting. A set of…

— Nina LaCour