8 Quotes by Donna Freitas

To create a community where faith matters not just in theory but in reality, faith has to be a public value, not just a private one.

Life was fragile and love was, too. At any moment, even our happiest ones, our world could shatter and we wouldn’t see it coming. There was only more loss ahead, showing its ugly face when we least expected it.

But is there such a thing as trauma without shame? Isn’t shame an integral part of what causes an event or series of events to become a trauma?

The happier people become the more I noticed my sadness.

I guess you could say my mind was injured and that’s why I didn’t play.

The only thing that mattered was where I was and who I was with now, and when Will’s arms tightened around me I knew I was right where I needed to be all along.

Was he going to ask me to go with him? Maybe I was getting ahead of myself and he was just making conversation. Oh, why was talking to a boy so fraught with complication?

I am a survivor, but I also am, and always will be, a victim. I can’t speak for others who share this dual identity, but I can say for myself that, while I wish to be the proud person who exclusively occupies the title of survivor, I still claim the territory of the shivering, cowering victim.