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“ It's easier, somehow, if there's a reason for tragedy - lust or jealousy or hatred or revenge. We can find in these explanations an emotional tenor commensurate with the gravity of the act. There's something we recognize as human, a motive toward which we can direct our rage but can also understand, at some primal level, as an extension of ourselves. ”

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A cry for attention is positioned as a crime, as if attention were inherently a selfish thing to want. But isn’t wanting attention one of the most fundamental traits of being human—and isn’t granting it one of the most important gifts we can ever give?

~ Leslie Jamison

Pain without cause is a pain we can't trust. We assume it's been chosen or fabricated.

~ Leslie Jamison

We want our wounds to speak for themselves, but usually we end up having to speak for them.

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Freedom from one man is just another one.

~ Leslie Jamison