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the sadness of a lost childhood feels like yearning, impossible desire. It feels like a hollow, insatiable hunger.

— Stephanie Foo What My Bones Know (2022)

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It takes an intellectual and physical effort to shove aside the comfortably worn neural pathways and go in a different direction.

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Every villain's redemption arc begins with their origin story. (prologue)

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Being healed isn’t about feeling nothing. Being healed is about feeling the appropriate emotions at the appropriate times and still being able to come back to yourself. That’s just life.

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Capitalism and academic success have buried trauma.

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The important thing in healing is being able to hold the nuance of it.

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