top of page
.png){kind=small}
"Somewhere in the sun-washed space between Southern California's hills of sand and the present desolate volcanic sprawl I was crossing, my legs had strengthened, but " invisibly " so had my will. The wisdom of my body had cultivated vibrantly since those sadness-drunken months after the rape when I'd felt so numbed by the hurt and shame that I didn't move further. No longer."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Recovery quotes
"The old days are dead and gone days. For what I did in the past I have been punished. I have been cured."
"Even if things were broken right now. Sometimes it was the cracks that let the light in."
"I mean, okay, let's say we're all going to get better. Let's just pretend we will. Fine. Where are we going to go after we get better? What are we going to do with all of our newfound healthy behaviors? Back out into the world that screwed us up and screwed us over. This does not sound promising."
"You are NOT an abuse survivor or victim. Leave your labels elsewhere because they are no longer serving you."
"You don't dwell on what you've lost, you just move on."
"The more severe the dysfunction you experienced growing up, the more difficult boundaries are for you."
Explore more quotes by Aspen Matis
"Living as Wild Child, I could no longer be Debby Parker comfortably - this name that I'd been given at birth that defined me before I'd had the chance to define myself."
"I walked without breaks, slept through nights without waking, inhumanly smooth " a small machine."
"I wanted both things: strength in my independence and also this new desire. This felt like the beginning of a new kind of love."
"This was a vision of wildness contained " caged. Huge, powerful animals whose wild dignity was stripped from them.Panic jolted me. These animals had had their freedom seized by people who put their own desires first. In the glint of the silver cage bars I saw the same steely repression, the same cold entitlement that allows people to feel it is okay to steal bodies and lives as I glimpsed while frozen beneath Junior. The boy who had put his few minutes of pleasure before my entire life."
"These tools were my parents' way of saying: What you're doing is important. We support it. We want to help you find your way."
"I sensed he was the one who might be able to see me clearly, the way I most wished to be seen."
"She told me that my rape was not my fault, that I should feel no shame, that " simple as it may sound " I hadn't caused it. No one causes rape but rapists. No one causes rape but rapists. No one causes rape but rapists. It was true. And it had not been obvious to me. And hearing it from someone else, a professional, someone who should know, helped me believe that soon I would believe it."
"Death is not a pretty flower that had almost pricked me. It was not a small annoyance I could simply bypass and quickly disregard. It was really The End."
"I was promising myself strength.I had to write it, say it, make the effort and fake it before I actually believed I could do it."
bottom of page