"Hollowness: that I understand. I'm starting to believe that there isn't anything you can do to fix it. That's what I've taken from the therapy sessions: the holes in your life are permanent. You have ..."
- Paula Hawkins
"Depression weighs you down like a rock in a river. You don't stand a chance. You can fight and pray and hope you have the strength to swim, but sometimes, you have to let yourself sink. Because you'll..."
- Alysha Speer
"Scars are not injuries, Tanner Sack. A scar is a healing. After injury, a scar is what makes you whole."
- China Miéville
"The question is not how to get cured, but how to live."
- Joseph Conrad
"ligion is the opiate of the masses." "I did masses of opiates religiously."
- Carrie Fisher
"You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been."
- Aberjhani
"Un-winged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown to a throne called grace."
"A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmareto the jeweled vision of a life started anew."
"Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven’s mouth."
"The ORDINARY RESPONSE TO ATROCITIES is to banish them from consciousness. Certain violations of the social compact are too terrible to utter aloud: this is the meaning of the word unspeakable.Atrociti..."
- Judith Lewis Herman