Laura Block

“We all bear scars”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

“My first, a son, was a natural birth. The pain was a shock. I couldn’t understand how I could be in that much pain but still be alive. I screamed at the midwife, Cynthia, ‘GET ME AN EPIDURAL OR A GUN.’ Happily, they were out of guns and Ahmed, a good-humoured anaesthetist, arrived, injected some manners into me and I apologised to Cynthia.”
― Adam Kay, Dear NHS: 100 Stories to Say Thank You

“What’s it like?’ ‘Depression?’ I nod, too full of the moment for words, too fearful of what I’m about to find out. ‘It’s like being underwater while the rest of the world rushes by.”
― Clare Leslie Hall, Days You Were Mine

“We as humans forgot our specific place and spread into every place instead. As if we were removed from consequence. As if we were untouchable. We couldn’t even imagine the Earth retaliating. And then it did.”
― Cherie Dimaline, Hunting by Stars