
…after all, who isn’t a survivor from the wreck of childhood?
– Nicole Krauss
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- My childhood in Corfu shaped my life. If I had the craft of Merlin, I would give every child the gift of my childhood. – Gerald Durrell
- Fairy-tales exist and the best proof for this is our own childhood! Yes, childhood is a real fairy tale! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- Either I can go back to my childhood or my childhood can come forth to me. This is what I’m desperately wishes… – Hira Shahid Kazim
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- Childhood anxieties, childhood fears, never disappear entirely. They fade, but not away. – Lauren Bacall
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- I’m not a victim. I’m not a survivor. I’m a fighter. – JenniferElizabeth Austin
- Someone once asked me how I hold my head up so high after all I have been through. I said it’s because no matter what, I am a survivor NOT a victim. – Patricia Buckley
- P.T.S.D. doesn’t make you weak. It makes you a survivor. – DaShanne Stokes
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- What I understand now about survival is that something in you dies. You don’t become a survivor intact. Survival’s cost is always loss. – J Dylan Yates
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- I had walked into that reading-room a happy, healthy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck. – Jerome K Jerome
