Top 60 Stephanie Foo Quotes (2024 Update)
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Stephanie Foo Quote: “But in time, I came to terms with the fact that it wasn’t him and me against the world, anymore. It was me, alone.”

51. “But in time, I came to terms with the fact that it wasn’t him and me against the world, anymore. It was me, alone.”

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Stephanie Foo Quote: “I came to these books in search of hope. But they provided so little. There were days when the only hope I could see was that I needn’t worry about the pain lasting too long. At least I was going to die soon.”

52. “I came to these books in search of hope. But they provided so little. There were days when the only hope I could see was that I needn’t worry about the pain lasting too long. At least I was going to die soon.”

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Stephanie Foo Quote: “It made perfect sense to me later in life when I discovered that the Chinese word for endurance is simply the word knife on top of the word heart. You walk around with a knife in your heart. You do it with stoicism. This is the apex of being.”

53. “It made perfect sense to me later in life when I discovered that the Chinese word for endurance is simply the word knife on top of the word heart. You walk around with a knife in your heart. You do it with stoicism. This is the apex of being.”

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Stephanie Foo Quote: “This essay is itself a defiant, courageous act: Its existence blows clear that meticulously crafted fog of obfuscation and bares the maggoty ribs of our past for the vultures to pick at.”

54. “This essay is itself a defiant, courageous act: Its existence blows clear that meticulously crafted fog of obfuscation and bares the maggoty ribs of our past for the vultures to pick at.”

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Stephanie Foo Quote: “The essence of what trauma does to a person is it makes them feel like they don’t deserve love,” the voice in my headphones said.”

55. “The essence of what trauma does to a person is it makes them feel like they don’t deserve love,” the voice in my headphones said.”

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Stephanie Foo Quote: “So it felt significant – generous – for Auntie to sit here and tell me that the way my mother raised me was unfair. It was a permission of sorts to recognize – even among this generation that was so inured to pain – that the way I was brought up was not right. Not how it was supposed to be.”

56. “So it felt significant – generous – for Auntie to sit here and tell me that the way my mother raised me was unfair. It was a permission of sorts to recognize – even among this generation that was so inured to pain – that the way I was brought up was not right. Not how it was supposed to be.”

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Stephanie Foo Quote: “Dr. Ham would tell me that PTSD is only a mental illness in times of peace. The whole point of PTSD is to prepare you for being on the verge of death at any moment. My parents prepared me to face a vicious world with danger around every corner.”

57. “Dr. Ham would tell me that PTSD is only a mental illness in times of peace. The whole point of PTSD is to prepare you for being on the verge of death at any moment. My parents prepared me to face a vicious world with danger around every corner.”

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Stephanie Foo Quote: “Pain is about feeling real, appropriate, and valid hurt when something bad happens. Suffering is when you add extra dollops to that pain. You’re feeling bad about feeling bad.” “Double punishment,” I clarify. “Yes. So getting rid of suffering means you’re not adding to the pain.”

58. “Pain is about feeling real, appropriate, and valid hurt when something bad happens. Suffering is when you add extra dollops to that pain. You’re feeling bad about feeling bad.” “Double punishment,” I clarify. “Yes. So getting rid of suffering means you’re not adding to the pain.”

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Stephanie Foo Quote: “I learned that you can make mistakes and still deserve love. You can fight and then repair. Through his love, I understood how to unconditionally love myself.”

59. “I learned that you can make mistakes and still deserve love. You can fight and then repair. Through his love, I understood how to unconditionally love myself.”

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Stephanie Foo Quote: “The books say that in order to stop being a burden, I must learn how to “self-soothe.” I need to learn how to calm my anxieties by myself, without immediately texting everyone in my phone.”

60. “The books say that in order to stop being a burden, I must learn how to “self-soothe.” I need to learn how to calm my anxieties by myself, without immediately texting everyone in my phone.”

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Stephanie Foo Quote: “Dr. Ham was acknowledging his own vulnerability within the session. But his vulnerability didn’t make him seem less competent or trustworthy. It did the opposite. I trusted him more.”

61. “Dr. Ham was acknowledging his own vulnerability within the session. But his vulnerability didn’t make him seem less competent or trustworthy. It did the opposite. I trusted him more.”

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Stephanie Foo Quote: “The books taught me that when we live through traumatic experiences, our brains take in the things around us that are causing the greatest threat, and they encode these things deep into our subconscious as sources of danger.”

62. “The books taught me that when we live through traumatic experiences, our brains take in the things around us that are causing the greatest threat, and they encode these things deep into our subconscious as sources of danger.”

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Stephanie Foo Quote: “Catherine was right. Estrangement is not freeing. It has not felt joyful. It has not been happy. It has only felt necessary, and even that is something I question all the time: Does this make me selfish? Does it make me cruel? Then I think of the Thao Nguyen lyric, You made a cruel kid. Come look what you did.”

63. “Catherine was right. Estrangement is not freeing. It has not felt joyful. It has not been happy. It has only felt necessary, and even that is something I question all the time: Does this make me selfish? Does it make me cruel? Then I think of the Thao Nguyen lyric, You made a cruel kid. Come look what you did.”

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Stephanie Foo Quote: “The pain is a fanged beast that I’ve battled a hundred times throughout the years, and every time I think I’ve cut it down for good, it reanimates and launches itself at my throat again.”

64. “The pain is a fanged beast that I’ve battled a hundred times throughout the years, and every time I think I’ve cut it down for good, it reanimates and launches itself at my throat again.”

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Stephanie Foo Quote: “We went to an animal shelter, and became a happy little family: me, him, a mischievous cat. And, of course, the dread. Yes, it stayed, darkening my whole chest every day. Still, I thought, we could coexist, me and the dread.”

65. “We went to an animal shelter, and became a happy little family: me, him, a mischievous cat. And, of course, the dread. Yes, it stayed, darkening my whole chest every day. Still, I thought, we could coexist, me and the dread.”

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Stephanie Foo Quote: “Sadness and fury bit into each other like two warring serpents in my stomach.”

66. “Sadness and fury bit into each other like two warring serpents in my stomach.”

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