13 Quotes by Sarah Krasnostein

What's the difference between a private library and a book hoarder?' he wonders.We are both silent before chuckling and answering in unison: 'Faeces.

Sandra picked up a bottle and threw it at her. Just missed the TV by a bee's dick.

If we all talked to each other in this way, with warm camaraderie and complete non-judgement, much pain would be spared and happiness generated.

Hoarding does not discriminate on the basis of income or intellect.

Down the highway she has driven a thousand times before, without ever realizing that while everyone is moving at the same speed the trucks hauling the heaviest loads have the most momentum.

But it is equally the ineffable smell of defeat, of isolation, of self-hate. Or, more simply, it is the smell of pain.

One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

It is because they’ve told their stories more often. Because they were consistently surrounded by friends or parents or partners or children who were interested in seeing them as a whole person. This is how true connection occurs. This is how events become stories and stories become memories and memories become narratives of self and of family from which we derive identity and strength.

But the opposite of trauma is not the absence of trauma. The opposite of trauma is order, proportion; it is everything in its place.