Ana

“And yet, accepting the premise, allowing life to mean nothing for a moment, doesn’t it simply feel good”
― Sally Rooney, Intermezzo

“Thoughts are not facts. They are a mix of opinions, judgements, stories, memories, theories, interpretations, and predictions about the future.”
― Julie Smith, Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?: An International Bestselling Guide to Mental Health and Emotional Resilience from a Clinical Psychologist

“When we feel anxious about something, the most natural human response is to avoid it. We know that if we stay away, we’ll feel safe, for now. But avoidance not only maintains anxiety, it makes it worse over time.”
― Julie Smith, Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?: An International Bestselling Guide to Mental Health and Emotional Resilience from a Clinical Psychologist

“Yes I would like he thinks to live in such a way that I could vanish into thin air at any time without affecting anyone and in fact I feel that for me this would constitute the perfect and perhaps the only acceptable life. At the same time I want desperately to be loved.”
― Sally Rooney, Intermezzo