“After years of being taught that the way to deal with painful emotions is to get rid of them, it can take a lot of reschooling to learn to sit with them instead, finding out from those who feel them what they have learned by sleeping in the wilderness that those who sleep in comfortable houses may never know.”
― Learning to Walk in the Dark
― Learning to Walk in the Dark
“One thing you must realize is that: you either kill your addiction or your addiction will eventually kill you.”
― The Night Before I killed Addiction
― The Night Before I killed Addiction
“I hate how the people who really get you are the ones you can never hold onto for very long, and the ones who don't understand you at all stick around.”
― Night Film
― Night Film
“It was that kind of mindfuck: to be too visible and invisible at the same time, in the ways it mattered the most.”
― The Leavers
― The Leavers
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