Kelsey

“I have these thoughts that Dr. Karen Singh calls "intrusives" but the first time she said it, I heard "invasives," which I like better, because, like invasive weeds, these thoughts seem to arrive at my biosphere from some faraway land, and then they speed out of control. Supposedly everyone has them--you look out from over a bridge or whatever and it occurs to you out of nowhere that you could just jump. And then if you're most people, you think, Well, that was a weird thought, and move on with your life. But for some people, the invasive can kind of take over, crowding out all other thoughts until it's the only one you're able to have, the thought you're perpetually either thinking or distracting yourself from.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“Be grateful that
Time will heal the wounds but
Leave the scars.

How else will you
Remember all that
You've survived?”
― Caroline Kaufman, Light Filters in: Poems

“I want the past back, no matter the cost. It doesn't matter that it won't come back, that it never even actually existed as I remember it—I want it back. I want things to be like they were, or like I remember them having been: Whole.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“It's turtles all the way fucking down, Holmesy. You're trying to find the turtle at the bottom of the pile, but that's not how it works."

"Because it's turtles all the way down," I said again, feeling something akin to a spiritual revelation.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down