Adverse Childhood Experiences Quotes & Sayings

He imagined over and over the few moments they had together, kiss and touch and stickiness, until those moments congealed to a single kiss, a single touch: a pearl. Then even her face was lost in a blur, only the smallest sensation remained. And then nothing. He was over forty now. He thought of her but the sensuous arousals that once troubled him no longer stirred in him the same seismic memory: he didn't feel hate, or distance, or love, or passion. Only safety. Nothing can touch me now. Only pity. What will you do, whom I cannot save? — Eric Gamalinda

I would have liked to catch hold of sleep at least once, just as I had been resolved to catch hold of death one day, to catch hold of the wings of the angel of sleep when it came for me, to grab it with two fingers like a butterfly after sneaking up on it from behind. [ ... ] My sleep game was practice for the grand struggle with death. — Danilo Kis

Is he all right?" Jane asked.
"Oh, sure, probably losing a fight against a squirrel," Angus said.
"Or his shadow ... — Michelle M. Pillow

It's a fate worse than death to spend eternity in harness, serving as Lilly Hellman's zombie, brought back to life at dinner parties. — Chuck Palahniuk

Humans are the most gloriously bizarre creatures. — Jasper Fforde

Can it be that I have not lived as one ought?" suddenly came into his head. "But how not so, when I've done everything as it should be done? — Leo Tolstoy

The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones. — Nathanael Howe

What was creepier, a man who loved clip-on ties or a girl who kept a log of fantasy fathers hidden in her desk drawer? — Ruta Sepetys

We have sent our troops to war without paying for it. Now, we are bringing them home without saying how we are paying for it. — Patty Murray

I have not art to reckon my groans, but that I love thee best, oh, most best, believe it. — William Shakespeare

When a person becomes aware of their genius and they live it and they give generously from it, they change the world, they affect the world. And when they depart everyone knows something is missing. — Michael Meade

God looked upon His work and saw that it was good. That is where the clergy take issue with him. — Elbert Hubbard

I immediately went out and bought a book on anger management. And now I have that book, and I don't know if I'll get to the book. But I'm certainly excited about the day where I can't find the book, and I get to say, 'Where the hell is my anger management book?!' — Marc Maron

My mind has a time machine; it can travel back to the past when I close my eyes and in my dreams it travels to the future. — Munia Khan

The blade slid through the energy. Unaffected, the power swept over, then into Paran. Blinded, he screamed as bitter cold lanced through him, shattering his thoughts, his sense of self. An invisible hand closed around his soul. Mine! The word rang in his head, triumphant and filled with savage glee. You are mine! — Steven Erikson