Difficult Memories Quotes

It's a painful thing to talk about my childhood. I kind of don't talk about it much.

Very often when a story really holds us, it gets pushed away because it's too close for comfort.

Until you make peace with your difficult memories, that pain will continue to bleed into your current and future experiences.

When something's painful, you just avoid it. Why bother dredging up the past if it's nothing but bad stuff?

Facing the truth about the past is not always a pleasant adventure

Any book that you're writing about your life, there are tough chapters that you've gotten through, you've survived them, and kind of closed them up.

There are moments which are made up of too much stuff for them to be lived at the time they occur.

Simply touching a difficult memory with some slight willingness to heal begins to soften the holding and tension around it. (74)

There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.

We all have our painful pasts we have to get through.

Most of my schooldays were the worst day of my life.

I would tell high school Shane to just start writing down everything that was happening. It was so hard to think back to all those terrible moments. They all started clustering together into one big terrible moment.

People say, 'We remember the good times.' Well I remember the bad times.