Zoe

“Feelings are like poems; when you try too hard to make them perfect, in the end, no one will understand.”
― David Omrai

“Nirvana's music dragged you across the floor. You felt every crack; every speck of dirt. Their songs helped you locate the places where you ached, and in that awareness of your hurting, you suddenly knew that the bleakness was collective - not merely your own.”
― Carrie Brownstein, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl

“To be alone does not mean you have to cut yourself off from society, go to a mountain, and live in a cave. To live alone means you are always yourself—you do not lose yourself. You can sit in the marketplace, and yet you can be alone.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Begins Here: Palestinians and Israelis Listening to Each Other

“Depression’s defining symptom is anhedonia, the inability to feel, anticipate, or pursue pleasure. Chronic stress depletes the mesolimbic system of dopamine, generating anhedonia. The link between childhood adversity and adult depression involves both organizational effects on the developing mesolimbic system and elevated adult glucocorticoid levels, which can deplete dopamine.”
― Robert M. Sapolsky, Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst