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We spend our lives building higher fences and stronger locks, when the gravest dangers are already inside.
— Richard Paul Evans, The Sunflower
Posted on March 27, 2013 (♥ 12)
+ Richard Paul Evans + the sunflower + closed + secrets + depression + inside + anxiety + dangers
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I no longer believe that we can keep silent. We never really do, mind you. In one way or another we articulate what has happened to us through the kind of people we become.
— Azar Nafisi, Things I’ve Been Silent About
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When the body weeps tears of blood, we need to wonder what terrible sorrows cannot be spoken. When food that had tasted good suddenly feels like poison and has to be purged from the body, we should wonder what traumatic experiences exist that cannot be contained, metabolized, and integrated…. The body speaks of that which cannot be said in words, of secrets, lies, and trust that has been broken,
— Sharon K Farber
Posted on August 22, 2012 (♥ 25)
+ body + cry + eating disorder + anorexia + bulimia + depression + secrets + lies + speak + trust + unspoken + sharon farber + weeps + blood
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I wonder which is preferable – to walk around all your life swollen up with your secrets until you burst from the pressure of them, or to have them sucked out of you, every paragraph, every sentence, every word for them, so at the end you’re depleted of all that was once as precious to you as hoarded gold, as close to you as your skin – everything that was of the deepest importance to you, everything that made you cringe and wish to conceal, everything that belonged to you alone – and must spend the rest of your days like an empty sack flapping in the wind, an empty sack branded with a bright fluorescent label so that everyone will know what sort of secrets used to be inside you?
— Margaret Atwood
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When the body weeps tears of blood, we need to wonder what terrible sorrows cannot be spoken. When food that had tasted good suddenly feels like poison and has to be purged from the body, we should wonder what traumatic experiences exist that cannot be contained, metabolized, and integrated…. The body speaks of that which cannot be said in words, of secrets, lies, and trust that has been broken”.
— Sharon K. Farber
