“There’s no time stamp on trauma. There isn’t a formula that you can insert yourself into to get from horror to healed. Be patient. Take up space. Let your journey be the balm.”- Dawn Serra

“Life, she realized, so often became a determined, relentless avoidance of pain- of one’s own, of other people’s. But sometimes pain had to be acknowledged and even touched so that one could move into it and through it and past it. Or else be destroyed by it.”- Mary Balogh, “Simply Love”

“Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.”- George R. R. Martin