Nell Freudenberger Quotes

Once again she had the disorientating feeling that her past was still happening, unfolding in a parallel stream right alongside her present.

Nell Freudenberger

He didn't understand how sadness came so easily to people. For him it was like a pile of rocks that had to be moved one at a time. Just thinking about it made him tired.

Nell Freudenberger

... you sometimes had to force people to say things they would rather not articulate, just so they could hear their own words. It was interesting the way people could know things and not know them at the same time. Denial, he said, was like a thick stone wall.

Nell Freudenberger