Taryn Manning Quotes

When something catastrophic happens to someone you love, or a situation arises that affects people you love the most, if that's the first time you've been in that position, you never really know what to do.

In my experience, divorce takes you out for about 10 years, but you hear people talk about it lightly. The same with depression. You only have to have one good breakdown before you realize you need help. It's pretty frightening.

Over a period of 11 months, I was constantly afraid that Youth Care would lock me up. It was all a frightening and traumatic experience. So often, these terrible memories come to me. I can't ignore them.

I have this helicopter crash, and I fall in love with this man who was in the crash with me. I must have been suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome.

The results of any traumatic experience, such as abuse, can only be resolved by experiencing, articulating, and judging every facet of the original experience within a process of careful therapeutic disclosure.

Even with my father and brother dying, I didn't quite process the grief.

There's a vast encyclopedia of fears and phobias, and pretty much any object, experience, situation you can think of, there is someone who has a phobia of it.

Watching an adaptation of your novel can be a violent experience: seeing your old jokes suddenly thrust at you can be alarming. But I started to enjoy 'Money' very quickly, and then I relaxed.

Life is always surprising to me. When you think it's going to get dull, it never really does.

Stress is never a given. There are people who get divorced amicably. There are people who pack up and move with no emotional toll. There is no stressor 'out there' in the world. We experience stress - or we don't - depending on what we believe.

I don't react to a tragic happening any more. I took so many bad things as a kid and some people think I don't care about anything. It's just too hard for me to get emotional. I can't cry no more.

When you're traumatized, you pick out one thing you remember more than anything else.

To say how you would react if you were really storming the charts and had people running around after you... who's to say how any of us would deal with that.

You have to understand that PTSD has to be an event that you experience, a very traumatic event. And actually, there is evidence that brain chemistry changes during this event in certain individuals where it's imprinted indelibly forever and there's an emotion associated with this which triggers the condition.

Nothing surprises me. One thing I don't ever have in my world is surprise.

I'm always surprised by things that happen to my work.

I've learned from experience you just never know what happens in life.

Under so much pressure and the situation that I was in, that was the personality that came across with me.

For me, my awakening came when I was kidnapped.

I began to speak well at a very advanced age - 15, 16, 17 years old. It was psychological: the trauma of war, my family and growing up on my own. I was more or less a street kid.

Horror, for me, is not defined by the thing that provokes one's fear, but the human being who has contact with it.

Guys don't adapt as well as women do to getting their heart broken for the first time. It's tragic.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

… experience should teach us that it is always the unexpected that does occur!

When there's change, people are always anxious.