Quote by M.K. Schiller

“We go through so much trauma in this world. At least we get to die.”

— Mitta Xinindlu

“But trauma is all pervasive. It does not go away. It continues to reassert itself as life unfolds.”

— M.D Mark Epstein

“Sometimes it takes a tragedy to make you realize there was so much you should have done differently.”

— Chelsea Landon

“We are traumatized people. And nothing else has trauma’s power to deform the mind and heart.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“... when people want to hurt someone very much, they often reach for the thing that would hurt themselves most deeply.”

— K.J. Charles

“Some wounds went so deep you spent a lifetime trying to recover from them.”

— Noelle Adams

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

— Sue Johnson

“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

“We want our wounds to speak for themselves, but usually we end up having to speak for them.”

— Leslie Jamison

“The grieving process is different for everyone. The very thing that might bring peace to one person might bring despair to another.”

— Heather Burch

“I thought that helping someone meant sharing everything, even the things you can’t understand, even the darkest stuff.”

— Delphine de Vigan

“Sometimes you needed to be an outsider to really appreciate how things worked. Otherwise you took it for granted.”

— Nathan Lowell