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"I was ashamed of myself for being ashamed of myself. I didn't like feeling like that."
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"I was ashamed of myself for being ashamed of myself. I didn't like feeling like that."
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"We would not be ashamed of doing some of the things we do in private, if the number of sane human beings who do them in public were large enough."
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"We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us ashamed of ourselves of our relatives of our incomes of our accents of our opinion of our experience just as we are ashamed of our naked skins."
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"I felt ashamed.""But of what? Psyche, they hadn't stripped you naked or anything?""No, no, Maia. Ashamed of looking like a mortal -- of being a mortal.""But how could you help that?""Don't you think the things people are most ashamed of are things they can't help?"
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"She had wanted me to hold rape inside me like a dark pearl, keep it in there, as it grew, as I grew cramped, as it overtook me as hidden things do. Secrets become lies. I'd carried in every step I took this lie, the shame of it."
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"The shame that tormented me was all the more corrosive for having no very clear origin: I didn't know why I felt so tainted, and worthless, and wrong-only that I did, and whenever I looked up from my books I was swamped by slimy waters rushing in from all sides."
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"Shame comes in different doses."
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"You can cry, ain't no shame in it."
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"O shame! Where is they blush?"
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"You've got to vote for someone. It's a shame, but it's got to be done."
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"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."
Recovery
"Words could be like food - they felt like something in your mouth. They tasted like something."
Communication
"The summer sun was not meant for boys like me. Boys like me belonged to the rain."
Nature
"Feeling sorry for myself was an art."
Self-Pity
"Do you know what dead skin looks like when they take off a cast?That was my life, all that dead skin. It was strange to feel like the Ari I used to be. Except that wasn't totally true. The Ari I used to be didn't exist anymore. And the Ari I was becoming? He didn't exist yet."
Transformation
"Someday, I'm going to have to break some of your rules, Mom.'I know,' she said. 'Try to do it behind my back, will you? You can bet on that, Mom. We both sat there and laughed."
Parenting
"The problem is not that I don't love my mother and father. The problem is that I don't know how to love them."
Family
"The heart can get really cold if all you've known is winter."
Emotion
"Everyone was always becoming someone else.Sometimes, when you were older, you became someone younger. And me, I felt old. How can aguy who's about to turn seventeen feel old?"
Identity
"Summer was a book of hope. That's why I loved and hated summers. Because they made me want to believe."
Nostalgia
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