Quotes from Sandra Lee Dennis

Betrayal annihilates trust. The more trust there is to begin with, and the more deception is involved, the more damage is done.

We must pass through acute loneliness to learn that we are not alone.

I came to consider betrayal a moral violation of another's humanity—akin to torture.

Few things are as painful as the unfulfilled desire to be near to another you love.

Some of us will admit to a simple fascination with the inner world for its own sake, a fascination with no further goal than the thrill of discovery, the pleasure of engaging the mysterious, dark ground of our own nature.

Trauma silences a person. It shatters your identity, and along with it, much of what you thought you knew.

If we want to truly live, at some point, we find the dark facts of psychic life demand our full attention.

Letting someone believe something that is not true produces the same result as saying something false: It is the passive version of lying.

You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better. —Anne Lamott

I, or any mortal at any time, may be utterly mistaken as to the situation he is really in. —C. S. Lewis

If we want to truly live, at some point, we find the dark facts of psychic life demand our full attention.