Elizabeth

“I had the strangest feeling -- like I had lost something without ever really having it in the first place -- that I wasn't what I once was, and wasn't at all what I was meant to be. The sensation made me feel hollow down to my bones.”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds

“Nobody's story is real unless we share it with someone who matters.”
― Jeffrey Deitz, Intensive Therapy

“Trapped within the confines of his mind, he is too aware of every thought passing through it, as if he were outside, looking in. At night he often lies awake ruminating endlessly about what’s wrong with him, about death, and about the meaning of existence itself. At times his arms and legs feel like they don’t belong with his body. But most of the time, his mind feels like it is operating apart from the body that contains it.”
― Daphne Simeon, Feeling Unreal: Depersonalization Disorder and the Loss of the Self

“The greatest freedom in this world is a sense of self detached from appearances so that we may sacrifice today’s comforts for tomorrow’s opportunities.”
― Vironika Tugaleva