Jessica Stern Quotes

• Some people's lives seem to flow in a narrative; mine had many stops and starts. That's what trauma does. It interrupts the plot. You can't process it because it doesn't fit with what came before or what comes afterwards.

  Jessica Stern

  People, Anxiety, Doe

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• Some people's lives seem to flow in a narrative; mine had many stops and starts. That's what trauma does. It interrupts the plot. You can't process it because it doesn't fit with what came before or what comes afterward. A friend of mine, a soldier, put it this way. In most of our lives, most of the time, you have a sense of what is to come. There is a steady narrative, a feeling of "lights, camera, action" when big events are imminent. But trauma isn't like that. It just happens, and then life goes on. No one prepares you for it.

  Jessica Stern

  Light, People, Feelings

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• I can still bring into my body the joy I felt at seeing the first trillium of spring, which seemed to be telling me, “Never give up hope, spring will come.”

  Jessica Stern

  Giving Up, Spring, Joy

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• I have listened and I have been quiet all my life. But now I will speak.

  Jessica Stern

  Quiet, Speak, Has Beens

  Jessica Stern (2010). “Denial: A Memoir of Terror”, p.25, Harper Collins

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• Keep up your courage, stay true to what you believe in.

  Jessica Stern

  Believe, Stay True

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• I will roar argon into chlorine, xenon into fluorine, all the noble gases into reactive ones My lament will terrify even the stars.

  Jessica Stern

  Xenon, Stars, Noble

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• Never give up hope, spring will come.

  Jessica Stern

  Giving Up, Spring, Never Give Up Hope

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