The point is that our body's core regulatory systems can be altered by traumatic experiences. A child exposed to unpredictable or extreme stress will become what we call dysregulated.

Even as an adult, as I tried to sleep, my mind was conditioned to stay in a constant state of arousal, prepared for attack.

Everything that happened to you can be used to strengthen you, if you allow it, if you're open to it.

I know for sure that when you remove the fear, the answer you've been searching for comes into focus. And as you walk into what you fear, you should know for sure that your deepest struggle can, if you're willing and open, produce your greatest strength.

The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

I have got to make everything that has happened to me good for me

Insecurity is worse than poverty.

All the time you spend tryin to get back what's been took from you there's more goin out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it.

On this road there are no godspoke men. They are gone and I am left and they have taken with them the world.

I will do what I promised. He whispered. No matter what. I will not send you into the darkness alone.

What he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would return.

You ever get ill at ease? said Rawlins. About what? I dont know. About anything. Just ill at ease. Sometimes. If you're someplace you aint supposed to be I guess you'd be ill at ease. Should be anyways. Well suppose you were ill at ease and didnt know why. Would that mean that you might be someplace you wasnt supposed to be and didnt know it?