believe fiction power stories way speak tongues. silenced. us, deep tr — Jeanette Winterson, Happy Normal?

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I believe in fiction and the power of stories because that way we speak in tongues. We are not silenced. All of us, when in deep trauma, find we hesitate, we stammer; there are long pauses in our speech. The thing is stuck. We get our language back through the language of others. We can turn to the poem. We can open the book. Somebody has been there for us and deep-dived the words.

Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

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