Emily B

“We are all insects. Groping towards something terrible or divine.”
― Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle

“Grief takes many forms, including the absence of grief.”
― Alison Bechdel

“But what if I did tell people exactly what was going on? What if I valued my own peace of mind more than what other people think of me? Would I end up jobless, friendless, and loveless? Would I vanish entirely?”
― Melissa Broder, So Sad Today: Personal Essays

“An external attribution exists to make you feel less shitty. It’s a handy tool, wherein you perceive anything positive that happens to you as a mistake, subjective, and/or never a result of your own goodness. Negative things, alternately, are the objective truth. And they’re always your fault.”
― Melissa Broder, So Sad Today: Personal Essays