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"Of course the spy book club with only four members includes That Woman.
Of course there are three dogs, one of which always farts.
Of course the bathroom is nautical-themed.
It's like everything has to be quirky and offbeat." — May 06, 2025 10:35AM
"Of course the spy book club with only four members includes That Woman.
Of course there are three dogs, one of which always farts.
Of course the bathroom is nautical-themed.
It's like everything has to be quirky and offbeat." — May 06, 2025 10:35AM
“From now on...” Fumiko chose her words. “From now on—what about the future?” Kazu looked straight at Fumiko. “Well, as the future hasn’t happened yet, I guess that’s up to you...” she said, revealing a smile for the first time.
“If you have ever believed a depressive wants to be happy, you are wrong. They could not care less about the luxury of happiness. They just want to feel an absence of pain.”
― Reasons to Stay Alive
― Reasons to Stay Alive
“The weird thing about depression is that, even though you might have more suicidal thoughts, the fear of death remains the same. The only difference is that the pain of life has rapidly increased. So when you hear about someone killing themselves it’s important to know that death wasn’t any less scary for them. It wasn’t a ‘choice’ in the moral sense. To be moralistic about it is to misunderstand.”
― Reasons to Stay Alive
― Reasons to Stay Alive
“Even more staggeringly, depression is a disease so bad that people are killing themselves because of it in a way they do not kill themselves with any other illness. Yet people still don’t really think depression really is that bad. If they did, they wouldn't say the things they say.”
― Reasons to Stay Alive
― Reasons to Stay Alive
“Boring and unpleasant did not mean a task was 'unfruitful,' a fact a lot of people seemed not to know, or to willfully ignore.”
― The Tommyknockers
― The Tommyknockers
“That was four people right there who loved me. I wished like mad, in that moment, that I had no one at all. Not a single soul. Love was trapping me here. And they didn't know what it was like, what my head was like. Maybe if they were in my head for ten minutes they'd be like, 'Oh, okay, yes, actually. You should jump. There is no way you should feel this amount of pain. Run and jump and close you eyes and just do it. I mean, if you were on fire I could put a blanket around you, but the flames are invisible. There is nothing we can do. So jump. Or give me a gun and I'll shoot you. Euthanasia.'
But that was not how it worked. If you are depressed your pain is invisible.”
― Reasons to Stay Alive
But that was not how it worked. If you are depressed your pain is invisible.”
― Reasons to Stay Alive
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