Skye Hunter

“There’s a sort of constant ease, as if it’s high summer all the time inside her.”
― Naomi Alderman, The Power

“You see, down here, where life hangs heavy like a suffocating cloak, I can’t remember that I’ve ever felt any other way. I need to be reminded that there are reasons in the world to hold on, even if I have forgotten them; I tell myself if I can just hold on I will remember them, these reasons, they will come back to me.”
― Daphne Merkin, This Close to Happy: A Reckoning with Depression

“My anxiety disorder, on the other hand, is always with me and comes with all sorts of niggling “bonus” disorders and phobias, like some sort of terrible boxed set.”
― Jenny Lawson, Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things

“Despair is always described as dull, when the truth is that despair has a light all its own, a lunar glow, the color of mottled silver.”
― Daphne Merkin, This Close to Happy: A Reckoning with Depression