

“My heart is a messy bedroom I always distract myself from cleaning.”
― Depression & Other Magic Tricks
― Depression & Other Magic Tricks

“my heart has developed a kind of amnesia, where it remembers everything but itself.”
― Depression & Other Magic Tricks
― Depression & Other Magic Tricks

“One time I saw a tiny Joshua tree sapling growing not too far from the old tree. I wanted to dig it up and replant it near our house. I told Mom that I would protect it from the wind and water it every day so that it could grow nice and tall and straight. Mom frowned at me. "You'd be destroying what makes it special," she said. "It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty.”
― The Glass Castle
― The Glass Castle

“how do i teach my ears to hear songs without the ghosts of you inside of them?”
― Depression & Other Magic Tricks
― Depression & Other Magic Tricks

“mom, i am lonely.
i think i learnt it when dad left;
how to turn the anger into lonely,
the lonely into busy.”
― Depression & Other Magic Tricks
i think i learnt it when dad left;
how to turn the anger into lonely,
the lonely into busy.”
― Depression & Other Magic Tricks
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