The Shaking Woman, or A History of My Nerves
Siri Hustvedt
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it.”
“Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting.”
“Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer, and each dreamer has his own folds to open and knots to untie.”
“The truth is that personality inevitably bleeds into all forms of our intellectual life. We all extrapolate from our own lives in order to understand the world.”
“Memory changes as a person matures.”
“The faculty of memory cannot be separated from the imagination. They go hand in hand. To one degree or another, we all invent our personal pasts. And for most of us those pasts are built from emotionally colored memories.”
“Ture stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they unfolded.”
“There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in.”
“Memory is essential to who we are, and memories can be both implicit and explicit - unconscious and conscious.”
“Dreaming is another form of thinking, more concrete, more economical, more visual, and often more emotional than the thoughts of the day, but a thinking through of the day, nevertheless.”
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