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

“You tell me that my pain feels searing and that I'm missing four layers of skin. Your pain is an empty room. I agree.”
― 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

“I avoid the mysticism of my culture. My people know there is a true mechanism that runs through us. Stars were people in our continuum. Mountains were stories before they were mountains. Things were created by story. The words were conjurers, and ideas were our mothers.”
― Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries