Quotes About Healing

U]nhappy families are conspiracies of silence. The one who breaks the silence is never forgiven. He or she has to learn to forgive him or herself.

Los niños adoptados nos autoinventamos porque no tenemos otra salida; hay una ausencia, un vacío, un signo de interrogación justo al principio de nuestras vidas. Una parte crucial se ha ido, y de forma violenta, como una bomba en el útero materno.

When we buried my mother, some of the light went out of me, and it seemed proper that I should go and live in a place where all the light shone outwards and none of it was there for us. Pew

Creativity is on the side of health – it isn't the thing that drives us mad; it is the capacity in us that tries to save us from madness. The

And the people I have hurt, the mistakes I have made, the damage to myself and others, wasn't poor judgement; it was the place where love had hardened into loss.

Those old sayings about Give It Time, and Time is a Healer depend on just whose time it is.

the nearness of the wound to the gift

Memories can be tools for change; they don't have to be weapons used against us, or baggage we have to drag around.

To lose someone you love Is to alter your life forever... The pain stops, there are new people, But the gap never closes... This hole in your hear is the shape of the one you lost- No one else can fit it.

All of us, when in deep trauma, find we hesitate, we stammer; there are long pauses in our speech. The thing is stuck. We get our language back through the language of others. We can turn to the poem. We can open the book. Somebody has been there for us and deep-dived the words.

Avem nevoie de cuvinte pentru c? familiile nefericite sunt ni?te conspira?ii ale t?cerii. Cel care rupe t?cerea nu este iertat niciodat?.

el amor deja una herida que a su vez deja una cicatriz.

Necesitaba palabras porque las familias infelices son un pacto de silencio. Quien rompa el silencio jamás será perdonado.

Does the body hate itself so much that it seeks release at any cost?

If I am a wound would love be my salve? If I am speechless would love be a mouth?

You can pick up a book but a book can throw you across the room. A book can move you from a comfortable armchair to a rocky place where the sea is. A book can separate you from your husband, your wife, your children, all that you are. It can heal you out of a lifetime of pain. Books are kinetic, and like all huge forces, need to be handled with care.

Hallando en cada enfermedad síntomas de la mía, creía tenerlas todas y contraje una más cruel de que me conceptuaba libre: el anhelo de curar; y es una enfermedad difícil de evitar cuando se leen libros de medicina.

Go into the woods to lose sight and memory of the crimes of your contemporaries.

Poppy was now almost well. She still slept more than usual, but when she wasn't sleeping she tromped around the doctor's house pulling spoons off the table and spilling cups of water and crumpling pages of books. That is, she was almost her old self.

It had taken me twenty-five years to reach the point where I could talk openly about Manzanar

Writing it has been a way of coming to terms with the impact these years have had on my entire life.

When someone's wounded, the first order of business is to stop the bleeding. You can figure out later how best to help them heal.

To all families who, despite their scars, still find a way to love.

I told Mom that maybe I had made a terrible mistake, but mom said sometimes you have to get sicker before you can get better.