Jessica Stern quotes
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“Some people's lives seem to flow in a narrative; mine had many stops and starts. That's what trauma does. It interrupts the plot. You can't process it because it doesn't fit with what came before or what comes afterwards.”
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“Some people's lives seem to flow in a narrative; mine had many stops and starts. That's what trauma does. It interrupts the plot. You can't process it because it doesn't fit with what came before or what comes afterward. A friend of mine, a soldier, put it this way. In most of our lives, most of the time, you have a sense of what is to come. There is a steady narrative, a feeling of "lights, camera, action" when big events are imminent. But trauma isn't like that. It just happens, and then life goes on. No one prepares you for it.”
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“I can still bring into my body the joy I felt at seeing the first trillium of spring, which seemed to be telling me, “Never give up hope, spring will come.—
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“I have listened and I have been quiet all my life. But now I will speak.”
-- Jessica SternSource : Jessica Stern (2010). “Denial: A Memoir of Terror”, p.25, Harper Collins
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“Keep up your courage, stay true to what you believe in.”
-- Jessica SternSource : "Reality TV Star & Author Lauren Conrad". Interview with Jen Rubino, www.teenink.com. September 25, 2011.
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“I will roar argon into chlorine, xenon into fluorine, all the noble gases into reactive ones My lament will terrify even the stars.”
-- Jessica Stern
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Source : "Ştiinţa antisemitismului ("The Science of Anti-Semitism")". "Apararea Nationala" ("The National Defense") No. 16, Nov. 15, 1922.
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“Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.”
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“No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.”
Source : Alan Watts (2017). “Out of Your Mind: Tricksters, Interdependence, and the Cosmic Game of Hide and Seek”, p.93, Sounds True
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“Anxiety is the fear that one of a pair of opposites might cancel the other. Forever.”
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“Narrative is one of the best intoxicants or tranquilisers.”
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“I write short, my words tight to the thread of the narrative.”
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