Louisa

“The only way out is in.”
― Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

“Her endeavor was misguided and wrong and maybe plain crazy, akin to someone waking up one day and deciding he’s going to scale Kilimanjaro because he can’t stop imagining the view from the top, the picture so arresting and beautiful that it too soon delivers him to a precarious ledge, where he can no longer turn back. And while it’s easy to say this is a situation to be avoided, isn’t this what we also fear and crave simultaneously, that some internal force which defies understanding might remake us into the people we dream we are?”
― Chang-rae Lee, On Such a Full Sea

“Once you create a self-justifying storyline, your emotional entrapment within it quadruples.”
― Pema Chodron

“Is there no way out of the mind?”
― Sylvia Plath