"Ultimate horror often paralyses memory in a merciful way."

Trauma, Horror, Memory, Fear

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"Ultimate horror often paralyses memory in a merciful way."

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"You've never had someone you love snatched, I shot back, annoyed by her ignorance. 'Any sense of safety kind of bites it after that. You watch your back because no one else can."

Katherine McIntyre, American Novelist

Trauma, Loss, Security, Fear

"I learned how to stop crying.I learned how to hide inside of myself.I learned how to be somebody else.I learned how to be cold and numb."

Sherman Alexie, American Writer

Trauma, Defense, Survival, Identity

"I had no evidence. No physical signs of my rape existed anymore. My body had already purged them. That was the irreversible reality."

Aspen Matis, American Author

Trauma, Reality, Loss, Evidence

"His abusemakes her an anvilwithout spark."

Munia Khan, Bangladeshi Poet

Trauma, Abuse, Pain, Suffering, Darkness

"Her body was a prison, her mind was a prison. Her memories were a prison. The people she loved. She couldn't get away from the hurt of them. She could leave Eric, walk out of her apartment, walk forever if she liked, but she couldn't escape what really hurt. Tonight even the sky felt like a prison."

Ann Brashares, American Author

Trauma, Prison, Hurt, Memory, Isolation

"She'd taken care of me in all the ways my body needed, but the devastation of my rape had made me feel the weight of the essential way she had neglected me: she hadn't nurtured the potential of my strong and healthy independence."

Aspen Matis, American Author

Trauma, Neglect, Independence, Healing

"I tried writing fiction as a little kid, but had a teacher humiliate me, so didn't write again until I was a senior in college."

Janet Fitch, American Author

Trauma, Education, Expression, Shame

"I'm afraid it will never be perfect again. I am indelibly stained. Forever redefined, but blurred around the edges."

Ellen Hopkins, American Novelist

Trauma, Loss, Identity, Pain

"Shock is a merciful condition. It allows you to get through disaster with a necessary distance between you and your feelings."

Lisa Kleypas, American Novelist

Trauma, Disaster, Feelings, Distance, Emotion

"As Jess watched in numb horror, the man tore a page from the book and stuffed it into his mouth."

Rachel Caine, Canadian Actress

Trauma, Horror, Fear, Emotion, Violence

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"Heaven knows where I'll end up - but it's a safe bet that I'll never be at the top of anything! Nor do I particularly care to be."

Care

"As we drew nearer the green shore the bearded man told me of that land, the Land of Zar, where dwell all the dreams and thoughts of beauty that come to men once and then are forgotten. And when I looked upon the terraces again I saw that what he said was true, for among the sights before me were many things I had once seen through the mists beyond the horizon and in the phosphorescent depths of the ocean."

Dreams

"The cat . . . is for the man who appreciates beauty as the one living force in a blind and purposeless universe."

Aesthetics

"When Randolph Carter was thirty he lost the key of the gate of dreams."

Dreams

"Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places."

Horror

"I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess."

Books

"The end is near. I hear a noise at the door, as of some immense slippery body lumbering against it. It shall not find me. God, that hand! The window! The window!"

Caution

"But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean."

Love

"Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time."

Dream

"To be bitter is to attribute intent and personality to the formless, infinite, unchanging and unchangeable void. We drift on a chartless, resistless sea. Let us sing when we can, and forget the rest.."

Acceptance