"I am told many children block out the memory of trauma. In fact, the healing process can only truly begin when we are willing to remember."

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Source : Phoebe Stone (2012). “The Boy on Cinnamon Street”, p.135, Scholastic Inc.

Phoebe Stone

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“What I write is very personal, but not autobiographical. It's more 'thematically personal' - what's up in my life in terms of themes at the moment.”
“I find it profoundly symbolic that I am appearing before a committee of fifteen men who will report to a legislative body of one hundred men because of a decision handed down by a court comprised of nine men--on an issue that affects millions of women.... I have the feeling that if men could get pregnant, we wouldn't be struggling for this legislation. If men could get pregnant, maternity benefits would be as sacrosanct as the G.I. Bill.”
“I'm fine with selecting Curry because the season he's had has been incredible.”
“What was I thinking? Fact is I wasn't thinking. I didn't want to think. I wanted to feel.”
“There is a reason behind life. There is some connectivity between living beings. Whether you want to call that 'God' or 'The Force' or whatever word you use for it, I do believe in a spiritualized mechanism.”
“Come away with in the night Come away with me And I will sing you a song Come away with me on a bus Come away where they can't tempt us With there lies I want to walk with you On a cloudy day In fields where the yellow grass grows Knee-high So won't you try to come Come away with me and we'll kiss On a mountain top Come away with me And I'll never stop loving you And I want to wake up with the rain Falling on a tin roof While I'm safe there in your arms So all I ask is for you To come away with me in the night Come away with me.”
“Words are not even within me. They're not in my vocabulary to really express the kind of feeling that I had.”
“I hate French poetry. What measured glitter!”

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