Kelsey

“If people in white collar professional jobs, who are among our society's most well educated, driven, and high achieving citizens are becoming addicts, what does that say about us as a society?

I ask myself, what is the point of being here at all, of striving to achieve success, and careers, and personal lives, if so many want to escape once they get there?”
― Eilene B. Zimmerman, Smacked: A Story of White-Collar Ambition, Addiction, and Tragedy

“There are gaps in the mesh of the everyday world, and sometimes they open up and you fall through them into somewhere else. Somewhere Else runs at a different pace to the here and now, where everyone else carries on. Somewhere Else is where ghosts live, concealed from view and only glimpsed by people in the real world. Somewhere Else exists at a delay, so that you can't quite keep pace. Perhaps I was already teetering on the brink of Somewhere Else anyway; but now I fell through, as simply and discreetly as dust sifting between the floorboards. I was surprised to find that I felt at home there.
Winter had begun.”
― Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

“- I have no argument with faith, understand, so long as it helps one to cope with the slings and arrows of life while keeping its hands outside of my pockets -
Virgil LaFleur”
― Dawnie Walton, The Final Revival of Opal & Nev

“Ruth had learned only one thing from the current reality, and it was that everything held together by tacit agreement that it would. All it took to unravel something was one party deciding to do just that. There was no real structure to prevent chaos. There was only a collective faith in order.”
― Rumaan Alam, Leave the World Behind