Elis Aaron

“And that feels . . . really bad. I could go on and on about how bad it feels. When you can explain things to people who are willing to listen to you explain them, it is extremely difficult to resist fully and brutally explaining them. It feels good to explain them — like maybe you're getting somewhere. Like maybe, if you can just...really explain them, the experiences will realize you're catching on and stop bothering you.”
― Allie Brosh, Solutions and Other Problems

“you keep going, you’ll eventually realize that the one true answer to all your questions is: Of course it doesn’t make sense—what business do you have expecting things to make sense?”
― Allie Brosh, Solutions and Other Problems

“Children of narcissists learn their feelings don’t matter to the narcissistic parent. The child carries an ever-present sense that he must bury his own ideas about the world, his own self, and do the thing required of him to please the narcissist, to receive the impossible-to-reach love and approval he craves. In short he doesn’t really know himself because he spends his life seeking to fulfill the fantasy world of the narcissistic parent.”
― Mikel Jollett, Hollywood Park

“She was the snake biting its tail. She was a dreamer, eternally bound to a nightmare, eyes closed even when her eyes had turned to dust.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic