Amrit Sagoo

“Outside the window, people threw dinner parties.”
― Olivia Laing, The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone

“They say, "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger"....I don't agree. Some things that didn't kill me, came so close that they're still damaging. They didn't make me better. Some things made me worse. And can't that be okay too? Can't some things just break you? This whole fucking world wants you to believe that admitting defeat makes you weak. For God's sake, bleed. And bleed openly. There can be pride in vulnerability. Honesty is maturity. And really, it's the things that did kill me, that made me.”
― J. Raymond

“for each traumatic event that happened to a child, they were two to four times more likely to grow up to be an addicted adult.”
― Johann Hari, Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs

“If someone asks you how you are, you are meant to say FINE. You are not meant to say that you cried yourself to sleep last night because you hadn't spoken to another person for two consecutive days. FINE is what you say.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine