Ghadaa

“my breakdown was like a furnace and what was burned away was any belief in my own feelings”
― Stephen Grosz, The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves

“i knew tht we all have the capacity to act in self-destructive ways, nevertheless i had a kind of faith that the desire to live was more powerful. now, instead, i felt its fragility. peter's suicide made me feel that the battle between the forces of life and death was far more evenly pitched.”
― Stephen Grosz, The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves

“Ultimately, your theme will find you. You don't have to go looking for it.”
― Richard Russo

“Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.”
― Jean Genet