"The very first part in healing is shattering the silence,"

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Source : Erin Merryn (2009). “Living for Today: From Incest and Molestation to Fearlessness and Forgiveness”, p.58, Health Communications, Inc.

Erin Merryn

#Healing Quotes #Silence Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Once upon a perfect night, unclouded and still, there came the face of a pale and beautiful lady. The tresses of her hair reached out to make the constellations, and the dewy vapours of her gown fell soft upon the land.”
“The American public's a lot more sophisticated than we all give them credit for. And on complicated issues, I'm going to give them straight answers. And if it takes more than three minutes, I'm going to do it.”
“I heard my mother talking badly of me to people who were talking badly of me in her salon. That's probably the thing that I'm most sensitive of in all my friendships and my relationships. I just... I just can't take that. I'm comfortable with enemies, but I can't take it from friends.”

Source : "Buffalo boy". Interview with Andrew Smith, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2001.
“There's a black man inside of me just trying to make bail.”
“My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music.”
“As a writer, I was deliberately creating an alternate world, and then populating it with experiences and people that I knew in this world, but I'd shake up the mix considerably. And about the same time that the memoir was becoming the dominant popular literary form in the mid to late 90s, I started reading writers who were deliberately playing with the notion of "truth" and "fiction" - that struck me as a much more interesting way to tell certain stories, particularly in the realm of comedy.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“With Ameen Rihani the matter is diametrically opposite to Alois Musil's Arabian Desert, in purpose, in point of view and, above all, in personal psychology... I have considerable admiration for Mr. Rihani as a writer, an authentic poet and a philosopher.”
“It was around the age of 18 when I started to feel like I had learned everything I could learn from being a model - modeling is a really incredible form of expression, but I got into modeling because I loved fashion so much and I really loved photography.”

Source : Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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