Buddhism Quote by Sharon Salzberg

“Although the telling of our story is a learning tool, we must use caution lest we are swept away in the compulsive momentum of…

— Kim Lincoln

“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 a unique phenomenon all on its own, as if it is an entity in and of itself.”

— Paul Levy

As a matter of fact, I deliberately look for the mundane, because I feel these stories are ignored. The most influential things that happen…

— Harvey Pekar

“The obsession with past trauma refracts World Lit’s sense of belatedness, even when the genre advertises its contemporaneity. You can argue that we’re still…

— The editors n+1

“Trauma stories are no more valid or noble than stories of love and heroism. Trauma stories are like black holes in space. They suck…

— Annette Vaillancourt

“Each story wanted, no—needed—to reveal a human fragility, a human bondage which tied people to the things they did and to be the person…

— C.J. Roberts

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

— Sue Johnson

Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstituted. Suddenly, they become the bleached bones of a story.

— Arundhati Roy

“The explanatory stories that people find compelling are simple; are concrete rather than abstract; assign a larger role to talent, stupidity, and intentions than…

— Daniel Kahneman

“Words create the stories that become history and become unforgettable.”

— Nina Sankovitch

“Seeing isn't always believing. Traumatic events are often accompanied by a form of disassociation.”

— Siri Hustvedt