The words in stories can be profound with special meanings only to us. Each individual will interpret the meanings within these quotations differently according to our own life experiences.
Reading RX offers a selection of quotations that we have used when our Bibliotherapy With Janice group first gets together.
Enjoy!!
"The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there."
The Go-Between
By L.P. Hartley
"Loss brings pain. Yes. But pain triggers memory. And memory is a kind of new birth, within each of us. And it is that new birth after long pain, that resurrection - in memory - that, to our surprise, perhaps, comforts us."
While I Was Gone
By Sue Miller
"...you can't find peace until you find all the pieces."
Orphan Train
By Christina Baker Kline
DOG IS MY CO-PILOT
from The Bark magazine
"If you assume the world is what you make it, then of course what you make will look like the world"
Pretty As A Picture
By Elizabeth Little
Janice Shapiro, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT CA Lic. #86051
"The bond between parent and child was all-consuming, and yet its power was not cumulative. It had to be remade again and again."
Friends and Strangers
By J. Courtney Sullivan