Haley

“I don’t want to go into the liminal realms. I want to know how to control myself when frightening things happen to me, and if there’s a chance that a ribbon around my ankle will keep me either tethered to this world or safer, somehow, when I do tumble out of it—though it may need to be used in tandem with medication, and reported to my psychiatrist—that’s good enough for me.”
― Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays

“listened to more audiobooks in the same genre, some written in such lousy prose that I believed I was killing off brain cells faster than either schizoaffective disorder or trauma could;”
― Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays

“Die the little death. I think you want to die the little death with me, Maeve.”
― C.J. Leede, Maeve Fly

“Still, I did what I had done all my life when faced with something I did not understand: I read about it.”
― Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays