Julia Zapton

“What do you even want with my sorrow? You are so inefficient with pain—I realized you never had to cultivate it the way I did. The way Indian women do.
You think weakness is a problem. I want to be torn apart by everything.”
― Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries

“I couldn't distinguish the symptoms from my heart. It was polarizing to be told there was a diagnosis for the behaviors I felt justified in having.”
― Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries

“Every bathroom floor is different, but no mourning I do feels familiar. It feels brand new.”
― Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries

“You've said before that I'm mercurial. I don't know. Pain feels faster than light. I react to pain, and there's too much of it.”
― Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries