Jonestowne

“purple bible-o’-madness”
― Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays

“my thinking, is how I am meant to live it;”
― Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays

“When a certain kind of psychic detachment occurs, I retrieve my ribbon; I tie it around my ankle. I tell myself that should delusion come to call, or hallucinations crowd my senses again, I might be able to wrangle some sense out of the senseless. I tell myself that if I must live with a slippery mind, I want to know how to tether it too.”
― Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays

“Yes, I thought, our eyes meeting, you may think I'm hot, but I'm also a rotting corpse. Sucks to be you, sir.”
― Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays