Mara

“You happened to me.
You were as deep down as I’ve ever been.
You were inside me like my pulse.”
― Marilyn Hacker

“Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. . . . It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope. That very deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad. Sad hurts but it's a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel. Depression is very different.”
― J.K. Rowling

“She had been right. Why was she always right, in her own odd way?”
― Sarah J. Maas, Crown of Midnight