“I thought how strange it had never occurred to me before that I was only purely happy until I was nine years old.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“Mental illness turns people inwards. That's what I reckon. It keeps up forever trapped by the pain of our own minds, in the same way that the pain of a broken leg or a cut thumb will grab your attention, holding it so tightly that your good leg or your good thumb seem to cease to exist.”
― The Shock of the Fall
― The Shock of the Fall
“I'm like everybody else: weak, full of mistakes, but basically good.”
― This Is How You Lose Her
― This Is How You Lose Her
“Everything people did seemed so silly, because they only died in the end.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“Hello, my name is your potential. But you can call me impossible. I am the missed opportunities. I am the expectations you will never fulfil. I am always taunting you, regardless of how hard you try, regardless of how much you hope. Please put talcum powder on my arse when you wash me, and take note of how our shit smells exactly the same.”
― The Shock of the Fall
― The Shock of the Fall
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