Brandi

“Usually I struggle with simple things. I make strange choices. The strength it takes to shower or the energy it takes to eat? You don’t get both, so choose wisely. Every action takes such work … as if living with mental illness is like waking to a different disability each day.”
― Jenny Lawson, Broken

“Epictetus: Thou art a little soul caught in a corpse.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations by Marcus Aurelius: the New Translation

“Life is different out here, she thinks, away from the city. Nature pervades each moment, instead of choking in a window box.”
― Sierra Greer, Annie Bot

“he opened me up like a book & poured the poetry back into me.”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in this One