"What do you do with your anger when the person you're mad at goes off and dies? Bury it? Bury it inside you?"

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Source : Elizabeth Chandler (2010). “Don't Tell”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

Elizabeth Chandler

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“What is required to face trauma is the ability to mourn, fully and deeply, all that has been taken from us. Only through mourning everything we have lost can we discover that we have in fact survived; that our spirits are indestructible.”

Source : Aurora Levins Morales (1998). “Medicine Stories: History, Culture, and the Politics of Integrity”, p.19, South End Press
“The strong hands of God twisted the crown of thorns into a crown of glory; and in such hands we are safe.”
“I very much wish that some day or other you may have time to learn Greek, because that language is an idea. Even a little of it is like manure to the soil of the mind, and makes it bear finer flowers.”

Source : Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1873). “Memoir and Letters”, p.169
“A Queen's sacrifice, even when fairly obvious, always rejoices the heart of the chess-lover.”
“I'm playing second fiddle to Justin Bieber - Bieber Fever is sweeping our house, and my girls have made it clear I'm no longer their favourite man.”
“In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life.”
“White in the moon the long road lies.”
“I am, of course, a frustrated rock star - I'd much rather be a rock star than a writer. Or own a record shop. Still, it's not a bad life, is it? You just sit at a computer and make stuff up.”

Source : "Ian Rankin: 'I am, of course, a frustrated rock star'" by Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2012.

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