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Etaf Rum Quote: “But most of all, I wanted to unlearn all the shame. I wanted to learn how to love and honor myself so I could know how to love and honor my children.”

51. “But most of all, I wanted to unlearn all the shame. I wanted to learn how to love and honor myself so I could know how to love and honor my children.”

Etaf Rum Quote: “Her powerlessness even comforted her somehow. Knowing that she couldn’t change things – that she didn’t have a choice – made living it more bearable.”

52. “Her powerlessness even comforted her somehow. Knowing that she couldn’t change things – that she didn’t have a choice – made living it more bearable.”

Etaf Rum Quote: “What’s meant for you will reach you even if it’s beneath two mountains, and what’s not meant for you won’t reach you even if it’s between your two lips.”

53. “What’s meant for you will reach you even if it’s beneath two mountains, and what’s not meant for you won’t reach you even if it’s between your two lips.”

Etaf Rum Quote: “Most of the time I just feel like I suck at being a person, that being alive is really difficult.”

54. “Most of the time I just feel like I suck at being a person, that being alive is really difficult.”

Etaf Rum Quote: “She thinks about the stories stacked across the shelves, leaning against one another like burdened bodies, supporting the works within each other. There must be hundreds of them, thousands even. Maybe her story is in here somewhere. Maybe she will finally find it.”

55. “She thinks about the stories stacked across the shelves, leaning against one another like burdened bodies, supporting the works within each other. There must be hundreds of them, thousands even. Maybe her story is in here somewhere. Maybe she will finally find it.”

Etaf Rum Quote: “Yet as much as she wanted to go out there and venture into the world, there was also a comfort and safety in the known.”

56. “Yet as much as she wanted to go out there and venture into the world, there was also a comfort and safety in the known.”

Etaf Rum Quote: “The only person you can trust is yourself, and sometimes even that’s not easy.”

57. “The only person you can trust is yourself, and sometimes even that’s not easy.”

Etaf Rum Quote: “When a woman is shamed and devalued in her community, she learns that the most traumatic events of her life will never be recognized as legitimate, and with that she learns there is no reason to speak them, that to do so might even be dangerous. Instead of reaching out, she is taught to reach in, conceal, pretend. When she internalizes this experience, she begins to enforce this silence in the women around her, teaching her daughters and granddaughters to do the same, a passing down of silence.”

58. “When a woman is shamed and devalued in her community, she learns that the most traumatic events of her life will never be recognized as legitimate, and with that she learns there is no reason to speak them, that to do so might even be dangerous. Instead of reaching out, she is taught to reach in, conceal, pretend. When she internalizes this experience, she begins to enforce this silence in the women around her, teaching her daughters and granddaughters to do the same, a passing down of silence.”

Etaf Rum Quote: “She’d be a writer, helping people understand the world through stories.”

59. “She’d be a writer, helping people understand the world through stories.”

Etaf Rum Quote: “There’s nothing to fix. You aren’t broken. You’re hurting.”

60. “There’s nothing to fix. You aren’t broken. You’re hurting.”

Etaf Rum Quote: “Books were my armor. Everything I’d ever learned growing up, all my thoughts, dreams, goals, experiences, it all came from the books I read. It was like I went around collecting knowledge, plucking it from pages and storing it up, waiting for a chance to use it.”

61. “Books were my armor. Everything I’d ever learned growing up, all my thoughts, dreams, goals, experiences, it all came from the books I read. It was like I went around collecting knowledge, plucking it from pages and storing it up, waiting for a chance to use it.”

Etaf Rum Quote: “Perhaps she had never confronted the voice in her head because it had been easier to listen to it. It had been safer to sustain the belief that she was a bad person. At least then she was in control. At least then she could arrange her life so carefully that her badness didn’t spill out and leak everywhere. But she would no longer be able to live her life with this regret, paralyzed by all the words she hadn’t said.”

62. “Perhaps she had never confronted the voice in her head because it had been easier to listen to it. It had been safer to sustain the belief that she was a bad person. At least then she was in control. At least then she could arrange her life so carefully that her badness didn’t spill out and leak everywhere. But she would no longer be able to live her life with this regret, paralyzed by all the words she hadn’t said.”

Etaf Rum Quote: “It was like her body was an ocean, and these feelings would always come and go like the tides. The task was not to let herself be pulled away by one of the currents. The task was to accept that her insides would feel violent and tumultuous at times, and to be okay with that.”

63. “It was like her body was an ocean, and these feelings would always come and go like the tides. The task was not to let herself be pulled away by one of the currents. The task was to accept that her insides would feel violent and tumultuous at times, and to be okay with that.”

Etaf Rum Quote: “I can tell my own story now, she thinks. And then she does.”

64. “I can tell my own story now, she thinks. And then she does.”

Etaf Rum Quote: “In the real world, recovery from mental illness could be a lifelong struggle, like pushing through a revolving door. Progress would be made and lost, setbacks were inevitable, and there was no finish line or picture-perfect ending.”

65. “In the real world, recovery from mental illness could be a lifelong struggle, like pushing through a revolving door. Progress would be made and lost, setbacks were inevitable, and there was no finish line or picture-perfect ending.”

Etaf Rum Quote: “Why did she have to be so afraid, so sensitive, so affected by the world?”

66. “Why did she have to be so afraid, so sensitive, so affected by the world?”

Etaf Rum Quote: “It would mean maybe I’m not so terrible after all, and maybe there isn’t something wrong with me, and I don’t deserve bad things to happen to me. It would mean that I was justified in feeling sad and alone growing up, that I deserved to be loved and cared for, that I’m not a cold, unlovable person.”

67. “It would mean maybe I’m not so terrible after all, and maybe there isn’t something wrong with me, and I don’t deserve bad things to happen to me. It would mean that I was justified in feeling sad and alone growing up, that I deserved to be loved and cared for, that I’m not a cold, unlovable person.”

Etaf Rum Quote: “She often wondered how many people felt this way, spellbound by words, wishing to be tucked inside a book and forgotten there.”

68. “She often wondered how many people felt this way, spellbound by words, wishing to be tucked inside a book and forgotten there.”

Etaf Rum Quote: “And yet she was no longer a child who could be sustained by the possibility of a better life. This was it. This was her life. Her chance to do better. And she was failing.”

69. “And yet she was no longer a child who could be sustained by the possibility of a better life. This was it. This was her life. Her chance to do better. And she was failing.”

Etaf Rum Quote: “She couldn’t believe how quickly time had passed, that she had gotten old. Old – she shook the thought away. It was not the thought of being old that bothered her rather the realization of what her life had amounted to. What a shame, she thought now as she waited for sleep to come...”

70. “She couldn’t believe how quickly time had passed, that she had gotten old. Old – she shook the thought away. It was not the thought of being old that bothered her rather the realization of what her life had amounted to. What a shame, she thought now as she waited for sleep to come...”

Etaf Rum Quote: “There was nothing she could do about it. Her powerlessness even comforted her somehow. Knowing that she couldn’t change things – that she didn’t have a choice – made living it more bearable. She realized she was a coward, but she also knew a person could only do so much.”

71. “There was nothing she could do about it. Her powerlessness even comforted her somehow. Knowing that she couldn’t change things – that she didn’t have a choice – made living it more bearable. She realized she was a coward, but she also knew a person could only do so much.”

Etaf Rum Quote: “Silence was better than being misunderstood, erased, unseen for who you really were.”

72. “Silence was better than being misunderstood, erased, unseen for who you really were.”

Etaf Rum Quote: “That to understand someone, you had to listen to the words they didn’t say, had to watch them closely.”

73. “That to understand someone, you had to listen to the words they didn’t say, had to watch them closely.”

Etaf Rum Quote: “Perhaps that was why she had spent her childhood with a book in front of her face, trying to make sense of her life through stories. Books were her only reliable source of comfort, her only hope.”

74. “Perhaps that was why she had spent her childhood with a book in front of her face, trying to make sense of her life through stories. Books were her only reliable source of comfort, her only hope.”

Etaf Rum Quote: “What’s the point of working for the future if it means forgetting to live?”

75. “What’s the point of working for the future if it means forgetting to live?”

Etaf Rum Quote: “She was a soul torn down the middle, broken in two. Straddled and limited. Here or there, it didn’t matter. She didn’t belong.”

76. “She was a soul torn down the middle, broken in two. Straddled and limited. Here or there, it didn’t matter. She didn’t belong.”

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