Presley Tapken

“Man surprises me most about humanity. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.”
― Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

“What a blessing not to think.”
― Meagan Church, The Mad Wife

“No one wants reality; we all want a fairy tale—”
― Alex Michaelides, The Fury

“She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.” ~Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar”
― Meagan Church, The Mad Wife