#sylvia fraser

[thewitchofwonders]

— Sylvia Fraser, My Father’s House

[funeral]

Sylvia Fraser, My Father's House

[quotemadness]

To me, forgiveness is the cornerstone of healing.

Sylvia Fraser 

[thewitchofwonders]

— Sylvia Fraser, My Father’s House

[funeral]

Who was my other self? Though we had split one personality between us, I was the majority shareholder. I went to school, made friends, gained experience, developing my part of the personality, while she remained morally and emotionally a child, functioning on instinct rather than on intelligence.

Sylvia Fraser, My Father’s House

[thewitchofwonders]

— Sylvia Fraser, My Father’s House

[thephilosophyofwho]

To me, forgiveness is the cornerstone of healing.

-Sylvia Fraser

[transcendentwhispers]

My main regret is excessive self-involvement. Too often I was sleepwalking through other people's lives, eyes turned inward while I washed the blood off my hands. My toughest lesson was to renounce my own sense of specialness, to let the princess die along with the guilt-ridden child in my closet, to see instead the specialness of the world around me.

Sylvia Fraser, as quoted in Judith Herman (M.D.)’s Trauma and Recovery