Sylvia Fraser Famous Quotes
Reading Sylvia Fraser quotes, download and share images of famous quotes by Sylvia Fraser. Righ click to see or save pictures of Sylvia Fraser quotes that you can use as your wallpaper for free.
To me, forgiveness is the cornerstone of healing.
I wrap my mind around pain till it smothers in its own scream. (101)
Imagine this: imagine you discover that for many years another person intimately shared your life without your knowing it. Oh, you had your suspicions – the indented pillow beside you, the toothpaste with a thumbprint that wasn't yours. Now it all fits, you know it's true, but during all that time you never actually saw this person. And so it is with me. She was my shadow-self, unknown to me. She knew passion where I knew only inhibition, then grief where I knew guilt, then terror where I knew anger. She monitored my every thought, manipulated my actions, aided my survival and sabotaged my dreams, for she was I and I was she. (228)
As the arrow that leaves the bow cannot be recaptured, what we say, senselessly, about others causes us great harm.
It is one of the ironies of my life and in many lives that whenever you are the happiest, all of this stuff from the past will come pushing up and demand to be noticed.
As a child, I survived by forgetting. Later, the amnesia became a problem as large as the one it was meant to conceal. However, I did not remember my past until the homemade bomb was defused, until the evil was contained, until I was stable enough and happy enough that sorrow or anger or regret or pain was overwhelmed by joy at my release. To reach this state, I needed the help of friends and healers. This I had in abundance. (252)
