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Trauma4 quotes
The most extreme agony is to feel that one has been utterly forsaken. — Bruno Bettelheim · 1979Why do I get the feeling that someday I'll be describing this to a psychiatrist? — Lisa Simpson · 1990They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had And add some extra just for you. — Philip Larkin · 1971The reality is we’re still 11-year-old boys locked in a cellar imagining what our lives would have been if we’d escaped. — Sean Devine · 2003Abandonment1 quote
The most extreme agony is to feel that one has been utterly forsaken. — Bruno Bettelheim · 1979Childhood1 quote
They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had And add some extra just for you. — Philip Larkin · 1971Counterfactual history1 quote
The reality is we’re still 11-year-old boys locked in a cellar imagining what our lives would have been if we’d escaped. — Sean Devine · 2003Parents and children1 quote
They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had And add some extra just for you. — Philip Larkin · 1971