{"quotes":[{"text":"He's at war with himself. Why doesn't he surrender to his feelings and stop fighting himself? He has hang-ups that I must cut him loose from.","author":"Steven L. Sheppard","tags":["byblis","caunus","greek-mythology","hang-ups","incest","ovid","play"],"id":33137,"author_id":"Steven+L.+Sheppard"},{"text":"Just as verbally and physically abused children internalize blame, so do incest victims. However, in incest, the blame is compounded by the shame. The belief that ‘it’s all my fault’ is never more intense than with the incest victim. This belief fosters strong feelings of self-loathing and shame. In addition to having somehow to cope with the actual incest, the victim must now guard against being caught and exposed as a ‘dirty, disgusting’ person.","author":"Susan Forward","tags":["anxious","belief","children","depression","family","fearful","feelings","healing","incest","mental-health","parents","shame","toxic","toxic-parents","victim"],"id":38068,"author_id":"Susan+Forward"},{"text":"So that it isn't upsetting to anybody. It's something we've always known about fairy tales – they talk about incest, the Oedipus complex, about psychotic mothers, like those of Snow White and Hansel and Gretel, who throw their children out. They tell things about life which children know instinctively, and the pleasure and relief lie in finding these things expressed in language that children can live with. You can't eradicate these feelings – they exist and they're a great source of creative inspiration.","author":"Maurice Sendak","tags":["children","children-s-literature","fairy-tales","fear","feelings","imagination","incest","oedipus-complex","rolling-stones","traditional-tales"],"id":38880,"author_id":"Maurice+Sendak"},{"text":"And thank you for saying all of that, and for loving me, for you haven't gone unloved, or unadmired, yourself.","author":"V.C. Andrews","tags":["admiration","admired","incest","love","loving","thankfulness","unadmired","unloved"],"id":46727,"author_id":"V.C.+Andrews"},{"text":"After all, the girl actually had faith in something, which was more than most people had in these dark times. It was wrong to destroy it.","author":"Chris Womersley","tags":["australia","bereft","chris-womersley","crime","disease","grief-and-loss","incest","murder","skepticism","spanish-flu","war"],"id":74936,"author_id":"Chris+Womersley"},{"text":"Gay men! And it's incest! With the same face!","author":"Bisco Hatori","tags":["gay","incest","ouran","shiro"],"id":109460,"author_id":"Bisco+Hatori"},{"text":"I am afraid of him now. The one I love most in the world.","author":"Neil Jordan","tags":["historical-fiction","historical-romance","incest"],"id":144790,"author_id":"Neil+Jordan"},{"text":"Each night I am nailed into placeand forget who I am.Daddy? That's another kind of prison.It's not the prince at all, but my fatherdrunkeningly bends over my bed, circling the abyss like a shark, my father thick upon melike some sleeping jellyfish.What voyage is this, little girl? This coming out of prison? God help -this life after death?","author":"Anne Sexton","tags":["fairy-tales-retold","incest","molestation","rape","sleeping-beauty"],"id":145066,"author_id":"Anne+Sexton"},{"text":"I think I know what he is REALLY doing in there... And thinking about ME while doing it.' (continuing) 'But when he thinks of me, he thinks: sister! Think: Byblis! BYBLIS! I don't think of him as my brother, I think of him as CAUNUS!","author":"Steven L. Sheppard","tags":["brother","byblis","caunus","greek-mythology","incest","masturbation","ovid","play","sister"],"id":186248,"author_id":"Steven+L.+Sheppard"},{"text":"To survive one tragedy was to learn you cannot survive them all, and this knowledge was both a freedom and a great loss.","author":"Chris Womersley","tags":["australia","bereft","christ-womersley","crime","disease","historical-fiction","incest","military","murder","skepticism","war"],"id":206822,"author_id":"Chris+Womersley"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":26,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}