Tiffany Messick

“I write best when I am either, falling in love, or falling apart.”
― Rudy Francisco

“Smiling despair. No solution, but constantly exercising an authority over myself that I know is useless. The essential thing is not to lose oneself, and not to lose that part of oneself that lies sleeping in the world.”
― Albert Camus, Notebooks, 1935-1951

“But one day the “why” arises and everything begins in that weariness tinged with amazement. “Begins”—this is important. Weariness comes at the end of the acts of a mechanical life, but at the same time it inaugurates the impulse of consciousness. It awakens consciousness and provokes what follows. What follows is the gradual return into the chain or it is the definitive awakening. At the end of the awakening comes, in time, the consequence: suicide or recovery.”
― Albert Camus

“I’ve been destroying, destroying, destroying myself in longing for poetic truth…”
― Edgar Allan Poe