Nathea

“Depression is also smaller than you. Always, it is smaller than you, even when it feels vast. It operates within you, you do not operate within it. It may be a dark cloud passing across the sky but - if that is the metaphor - you are the sky. You were there before it. And the cloud can't exist without the sky, but the sky can exist without the cloud.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

“When I had
no friends
I reached inside
my beloved
books
& sculpted some
out of
12 pt
Times new roman.

-- & it was almost good enough.”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in This One

“you may not have left (many) bruises on my skin, but you left giant blackberry bruises all over my soul.   - i still wonder who i would have been.”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in this One

“death   wound   itself   around   her   bones   like   a   piece   of   red   ribbon.  ”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in this One