Mariah

“It's so dark right now, I can't see any light around me. That's because the light is coming from you. You can't see it but everyone else can.”
― Lang Leav

“There was a time when she had indulged in the hypothetical for hours a day, plotting the map that had led her here. But no life is a line, and hers was an uneven orbit around a dark star, a moth circling a dead bulb, searching for the light it once held.”
― Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

“You remember too much,
my mother said to me recently.
Why hold onto all that? And I said,
Where can I put it down?”
― Anne Carson, Glass, Irony and God

“That which you believe becomes your world.”
― Richard Matheson, What Dreams May Come