Repressed Quotes

As ever in the family Goodman, someone would have to swallow feelings here, and it was easier that it be Mercer.

People that don't know what they are worth will always see their capture's wings, but never their tail.

I think repressing what happened is what saved me in my childhood. I was able to use my imagination to create happy events, but a little girl can carry only so much on her own.

Lately, I couldn't remember those years, as if childhood was a movie I'd only seen the previews to.

It is dangerous to use our own ability to access non-traumatic memories as a standard against which we judge a trauma victim’s response.

Bad days my memory functions no better than an out-of-focus kaleidoscope, but other days me recall is painfully perfect.

I find it increasingly difficult to speak of my feelings at will.