Angela

“The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.”
― Nikolai V. Gogol

“My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it. Seek out the memories depression takes away and project them into the future. Be brave; be strong; take your pills. Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds. Eat when food itself disgusts you. Reason with yourself when you have lost your reason.”
― Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

“She wondered whether the books she loved consoled her precisely because they were the manifestations of her own isolation.”
― Rachel Cusk, Arlington Park