Eudora Welty, on reading, writing and imagination:

Both reading and writing are experiences – lifelong – in the course of which we who encounter words used in certain ways are persuaded by them to be brought mind and heart within the presence, the power, of the imagination.

– Eudora Welty.

Thomas Jefferson, on books:

I cannot live without books.

- Thomas Jefferson.

Francine Prose, on reading:

With so much reading ahead of you, the temptation might be to speed up.

But in fact it’s essential to slow down and read every word.

Because one important thing that can be learned by reading slowly is the seemingly obvious but oddly underappreciated fact that language is the medium we use in much the same way a composer uses notes, the way a painter uses paint.

I realize it may seem obvious, but it’s surprising how easily we lose sight of the fact that words are the raw material out of which literature is crafted.

– Francine Prose.

Henry Ward Beecher, on books:

Books are not made for furniture,

but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

- Henry Ward Beecher.

In support of Narcissistic Abuse Awareness and Recovery:

Not a Narcissist – a Sociopath.

You don’t have to purposely cause physical harm to another human being to be a sociopath. No, a person can do it the “clean” way by taking your life apart, piece by piece. This includes the final cruelty of leaving you psychologically broken and financially ruined. I have heard too many of these life stories and it is vital that we understand how this happens and to reach out to those who have been left behind with unbearable traumas and sorrows that wound the heart… All sociopaths are narcissists. They have no conscience, no empathy, no mercy.

– Linda Martinez-Lewi, PhD.

If they are stupid enough to stray and cheat

be smart enough to walk away and let them go permanently.

Be careful who you confide in or vent to.

A listening ear may also be a running mouth.

Enablers & Flying Monkeys act on behalf of the Narcissist.

Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage.

– Winston Churchill.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

– Stephen Hawking.

I really think a champion is defined not by their wins, but by how they can recover when they fall.

– Serena Williams.

The only way to win with a toxic person is not to play.

The final stage of healing is using what happens to you to help other people.

That is healing in itself.

- Gloria Steinem.

----------

In support of Narcissistic Abuse awareness and recovery.

June 1st is World Narcissistic Abuse Awareness Day (WNAAD).

Recommended websites for research and recovery:

http://www.wnaad.com/

http://flyingmonkeysdenied.com/

http://www.innerintegration.com/

http://www.drgeorgesimon.com/

https://kimsaeed.com/

https://www.psychopathfree.com/

https://eclecticalu.blogspot.com/

https://micheleleenieves.com/

https://www.thriveafterabuse.com/

#AbuseByProxy #Adultery #AgainstBullying #BackStabbers #ClusterB #CPTSD #Enablers #FlirtingIsCheating #FlyingMonkeys #Gaslighting #HealingFromCPTSD #IAmEnough #IAmStillStanding #IfMyWoundsWereVisible #Infidelity #MicroAggression #NarcissisticAbuse #Narcissism #Narcissist #NarcissisticPersonalityDisorder #NarcissisticSupply #Psychopath #PsychopathFree #SmearCampaign #Sociopath #ThrivingAfterNarcissisticAbuse #TwoFaced #WNAAD

Fred Rogers ... on an aspect of evil:

I think that those who would try to make you feel less than who you are,

I think that's the greatest evil.

- Fred Rogers. Won't You Be My Neighbor? (2018).

-----------

June 1st is World Narcissistic Abuse Awareness Day (WNAAD).

Recommended websites for research and recovery:

http://www.wnaad.com/

http://flyingmonkeysdenied.com/

http://www.innerintegration.com/

http://www.drgeorgesimon.com/

https://kimsaeed.com/

https://www.psychopathfree.com/

https://eclecticalu.blogspot.com/

https://micheleleenieves.com/

https://www.thriveafterabuse.com/

Twitter hashtags:

#AbuseByProxy #Adultery #AgainstBullying #BackStabbers #ClusterB #CPTSD #Enablers #FlirtingIsCheating #FlyingMonkeys #Gaslighting #HealingFromCPTSD #IAmEnough #IAmStillStanding #IfMyWoundsWereVisible #Infidelity #NarcissisticAbuse #NPD #Narcissism #Narcissist #NarcissisticPersonalityDisorder #Psychopath #PsychopathFree #SmearCampaign #Sociopath #ThrivingAfterNarcissisticAbuse #TwoFaced #WNAAD

Margaret Atwood, on reading:

More of your brain is involved when reading than it is when you watch television...

because you are supplying just about everything...

you're a creator.

- Margaret Atwood.

Charles de Lint, on writing:

Don't forget - no one else sees the world the way you do,

so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.

- Charles de Lint.

J. K. Rowling, on books and reading:

Wherever I am,

if I've got a book with me,

I have a place I can go and be happy.

– J. K. Rowling.

Joseph Addison, on reading:

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

- Joseph Addison.

Ann Patchett, on reading fiction:

Reading fiction not only develops our imagination and creativity,

it gives us the skills to be alone.

It gives us the ability to feel empathy for people we've never met,

living lives we couldn't possibly experience for ourselves,

because the book puts us inside the character's skin.

- Ann Patchett.

David Quammen, on books:

Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime.

A good book, resting unopened in its slot on a shelf, full of majestic potentiality, is the most comforting sort of intellectual wallpaper.

- David Quammen.

Sarah Dessen, on writing:

I'm just writing what I know.
I've never been much of a reader of fantasy,
and I think you write what you, personally, enjoy reading.

- Sarah Dessen.

Marcus Tullius Cicero, on books:

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero.

Alice Hoffman, on books:

Books may well be the only true magic.

- Alice Hoffman.

Plato, on books:

A library of wisdom, is more precious than all wealth,

and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it.

Whoever therefore claims to be zealous of truth, of happiness, of wisdom or knowledge,

must become a lover of books.

– Plato.

Jane Austen, on reading:

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!

How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! --

When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

– Jane Austen.

William Wordsworth, on writing:

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

- William Wordsworth.

Virginia Woolf, on writing:

The way to write well is to live intensely.

- Virginia Woolf.

R. A. Salvatore, on writing:

If you can quit, then quit.

If you can't quit, you're a writer.

- R. A. Salvatore.