Jonestowne

“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

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

“You shine like love
You shine like hate
until I can’t remember the difference”
― McKenzie Richardson, 433 Lighted Way

“I was, allegedly, free of him, and I was safe, but I'd lost faith in that delusion a long time ago.”
― Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays