"Although it's not useful to drown in despair, it's also not useful to keep a 'positive attitude' when this means concealing or denying real emotions."

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Source : Harriet Goldhor Lerner (1996). “Life preservers: staying afloat in love and life”

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“There has to be insight born of hindsight. Otherwise, you're only confessing your sins and asking the reader to forgive you. And that is a complete misuse of the writer's power and unfair to the reader.”
“For four years, we didn't do any 'Halloweens,' ... But I believed in it. It's not a genius creation or anything. But whenever Halloween season comes around audiences want something like this.”
“Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.”
“I have great memories of being a Cub, and I'm happy building new ones with the Phillies.”
“Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already?”
“The salvation of man is through love and in love.”
“Zach found himself remembering something he'd heard Soledad and Leo saying the previous night, about healing. That it was mysterious. That it took time. And that Lucy was just at the beginning. That a terrible thing had happened - two terrible things, really - but they were now over. And that Lucy would be okay, in the end.”
“I always feel that as the author, once I know what a character is ashamed of, then I can go about making her truthful on the page.”

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