Esme

“Some people are like candles.

They burn themselves out
to create light for others.”
― James Norbury, Big Panda and Tiny Dragon (Hardcover)

“Am I good or evil? Orne asked himself. He forced his attention onto the question, but it was like wading upstream in a swift river. His thoughts twisted and turned, showed a tendency to scatter. He said: “I’m ... if I’m one with all the universe, then I am God. I am creation. I am the miracle. How can that be good or evil?”
― Frank Herbert, The Godmakers

“It took me a long time to accept that a person can only ever meet you how deeply they meet themselves.”
― Fariha Roisin, Who Is Wellness For?: An Examination of Wellness Culture and Who It Leaves Behind

“I have a lot of grief over being robbed of my early life and so I have a lot of anger towards people who have had good childhoods, it’s a privilege. I’m not sure why we don’t understand this. Especially when the difference between having a good childhood and not has dangerous long term side effects.

Infants whose caregivers were too stressed for whatever reason to give them the necessary attunement contact will grow up with a chronic tendency to feel alone with their emotions. To have a sense rightly or wrongly that no one can share how they feel, that no one can understand.

Despite the odds against us, children of neglect are forced to live normal lives. We are expected to get on with it. If we speak about our pain we become burdens or worse victims who won’t shut up.”
― Fariha Roisin, Who Is Wellness For?: An Examination of Wellness Culture and Who It Leaves Behind