Kit

“Depression is like a heaviness that you can’t ever escape. It crushes down on you, making even the smallest things like tying your shoes or chewing on toast seem like a twenty-mile hike uphill. Depression is a part of you; it’s in your bones and your blood. If I know anything about it, this is what I know: It’s impossible to escape.”
― Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes

“Sometimes things need to end before new beginnings can arise, sometimes people need to break so that they can truly heal, and sometimes love needs to leave before it can return in a different way. In the right way.”
― Ruby Dhal, My Hope for Tomorrow

“We need to learn to be strong in the face of despair, because that is the only way we will appreciate the strength that can be found in our scars. That is the only way we will understand that overcoming our obstacles gives us the willpower to deal with so much more in life. That is the only way we will accept that strength is earned, not given, that strength is in being soft, not stone-hearted.”
― Ruby Dhal, My Hope for Tomorrow

“guess my point is that the world doesn’t care about people’s heartbreak stories, Kate. People don’t stop living their lives because one person can’t deal with what the universe handed to him. I have to say this to myself over and over. Maybe then I’ll realize sooner that none of this matters anymore. That forgetting your book was my brain’s way of telling me to move along with my life, that maybe I shouldn’t always keep re-reading old books I already know the ending to, that there are so many new books I could read, and that new books and people and opportunities will continue to sprout and they will keep on happening, even if I think that my life is in a standstill.”
― Roch Lazarte, Matty's Mixtape for Moving On