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“Depression is a serious illness. It’s physically painful, debilitating. And you can’t just decide to get over it in the same way you can’t just decide to get over cancer. Sadness is a normal human condition, no different from happiness. You wouldn’t think of happiness as an illness.”
― Iain Reid, I’m Thinking of Ending Things

“It seems to me, maybe for the first time, that there are varying degrees of dead. Like there are varying degrees of everything: of being alive, of being in love, of being committed, of being sure.”
― Iain Reid, I'm Thinking of Ending Things

“When you become aware of your heart, you want it to stop beating. You need a break from the constant rhythm, a rest.”
― Iain Reid, I'm Thinking of Ending Things

“I am still so naïve; I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please, don’t ask me who I am. A passionate, fragmentary girl, maybe?”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath