Soumitro

“I was consumed with an odd feeling that I was starting to love: equal parts panic and thrilling adrenaline rush.”
― Mark Morton, Desolation: A Heavy Metal Memoir

“That’s my depression talking. It’s not “me.” 89. As if we could scrape the color off the iris and still see.”
― Maggie Nelson, Bluets

“I can only use the tools at my disposal to try to help others to the best of my ability, then hope for the best.”
― D. Randall Blythe, Just Beyond the Light: Making Peace with the Wars Inside Our Head

“I have sometimes found myself wondering if the same principle applies in other realms— if seeing a particularly astonishing shade of blue, for example, or letting a particularly potent person inside you, could alter you irrevocably, just to have seen or felt it. In which case, how does one know when, or how, to refuse? How to recover?”
― Maggie Nelson, Bluets