Melody

“I saw a man whose suffering had become a kind of skeleton holding him upright.”
― Eli Brown, Cinnamon and Gunpowder

“Healing always begins with a diagnosis. But then again, so does dying.”
― Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know

“Monsters come in all shapes and sizes. Some of them are things people are scared of. Some of them are things that look like things people used to be scared of a long time ago. Sometimes monsters are things people should be scared of, but they aren't.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“I think we all care deeply about things that seem totally inconsequential to other people. We all carry around with us the flotsam and jetsam of perceived humiliations that actually mean nothing. We are a mass of vulnerabilities, and who knows what will trigger them?”
― Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed