Aindrila Pal

“Eleanor felt the room rock madly, and time as she had always known time, stop.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

“[...] Fear of breakdown is the fear of a breakdown that has already been experienced [...}

It’s only lately that I’ve realized that Winnicott is not suggesting that breakdowns do not recut. Now I see that he may be suggesting just the opposite: that a fear of breakdown in our past may be precisely what causes it to repeat in our future”
― Maggie Nelson, The Red Parts

“By opening our hearts, revealing our scars, we are made human and flawed and whole.”
― Mark T. Sullivan, Beneath a Scarlet Sky

“After years of feeling like the dutiful daughter, now I just felt like a complete shit.”
― Maggie Nelson, The Red Parts: Autobiography of a Trial