Your Voice in My Head (2011) (edit title/settings)

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• Emma Forrest: Add a description of this character.
• Simon
• Christopher
• Perry
• Barbara
• Bob Dylan
• Lisa
• Jacob
• Teeter
• Mike

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• “I was scared they'd make me leave New York, whose own eccentricity brought me the splashes of joy I still felt.”

  Emma Forrest

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• Time heals all wounds. And if it doesn’t, you name them something other than wounds and agree to let them stay.

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• “You can’t give unconditional love to somebody who hates himself.”

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• “We all perform. It’s what we do for each other all the time, deliberately or unintentionally. It’s a way of telling about ourselves in the hope of being recognized as what we’d like to be.”

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• “Dying is no big deal; the least of us will manage it. Living is the trick.”

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• “I realize,” I tell Dr. R, “that I’m really, really bad at navigating life’s pointless daily pain. And that I’m better at handling catastrophe.”

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• “I always tell my kids and I am telling you: you can have this kind of love. It’s like grabbing the brass ring at the carousel. You can have it. You just grab it. Of course the problem with having that love …” The train picks up speed, her voice in my head trails off: “is that you can lose it too.”

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• “And I realized that for Jacob that there must have been a blessing in that, and there was and there is for us. What the angel gave Jacob was the blessing of self-transformation. You don’t have to be Jacob anymore. You’ve struggled. And now you can change.”

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• In the grip of madness, materialism begins to look like an admirable belief system.

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• “Let me tell you something, and I want you to remember it: who you authentically are—there is no one and nothing that can add to or subtract from that.”

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• This is the essence of my descent into cutting: you are caught between a terrible secret and a terrible secret that once revealed means people are looking, people are listening. Your pain can no longer be ignored or misread.

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1. Emma Forrest (Author)

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• Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Memoirs