Julia B.

“Anxiety, her therapist had told her many times, never killed anyone. It felt like death, but it was an illusion. A terrible illusion that inhabited your body and tried to make it its puppet. It told you nothing mattered because everything was made of fear.”
― Maureen Johnson, The Hand on the Wall

“I do not sleep because I am not only afraid of the monsters at my door, but also of the monsters my own mind can conjure. The ones that live within.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

“La Soleá"

All in this world has broken.
All that’s left is silence.

(Leave me in this field
weeping.)”
― Federico García Lorca, The Selected Poems

“Why. Do. People. Do. Stupid. Things."

"Because we're stupid," she said.”
― Maureen Johnson, The Vanishing Stair