Overstimulated Quotes

“I think about this offer carefully for a few seconds. Strangers, packed together in a loud, flashing room in scratchy clothes, making pointless small talk, eating food I don't like from plates that might not be properly clean, using cutlery with little bits of dried food still stuck to it. Intermittently dancing. Yeah: if Hades ever dragged me to the Underworld, that's exactly what I'd find there.”
― Holly Smale, Cassandra in Reverse

“Dear Journal,
It’s a family event.
I came,
I saw,
I became deeply overstimulated,
and now I must leave,
before my monsters wake up,
before the noise swallows me whole,
before the shadows start clawing back.”
― Sadia Hakim, A Poet From Alpha Centauri