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Tarryn Fisher · 2014
Sequence ladder
Narrative Intelligence sources live outside the figurative image sequence ladder. Adaptive placement applies to image sequences, not this reading library.
What this book knows
Trauma hollows a person into numbness, and only mutual captivity forces two wounded people to finally feel each other.
trauma-and-survival
Hell itself could unfurl in front of me, and chances are I wouldn't feel it. I saw things with my eyes and my brain processed the colors and shapes without matching them to feelings.
MVTF-RC-052People lost soul in two ways: someone could take it from you, or you'd surrender it willingly. I dressed, covering every inch of my body in clothing.
MV-RC-036intimacy
Isaac reaches out both thumbs and uses them to clear my cheeks of tears. 'It hurts me when you cry.' His voice is so earnest, so open.
MV-RC-028One day Isaac climbs up the ladder and lowers himself next to where I am sitting. I can tell he wants to talk. We are running out of firewood.
MVT-RC-021grief
I had breast cancer. No tears. No shock. Just a red bike that could fly. I didn't know why I wasn't feeling anything.
MV-RC-048'We block out things that threaten to break us. It's the brain's best defense mechanism.' I'm struggling for air. 'This was all an experiment to you.'
MV-RC-182Illuminates
6 published passages · book excerpt · research analysis
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