Alessia

“How far could the known reality stretch before the fabric tore and someone was flung out into space, or madness?”
― Calvin Demmer, The Town That Feared Dusk

“This story ["The Depressed Person"] was the most painful thing I ever wrote. It's about narcissism, which is a part of depression. The character has traits of myself. I really lost friends while writing on that story, I became ugly and unhappy and just yelled at people. The cruel thing with depression is that it's such a self-centered illness - Dostoevsky shows that pretty good in his "Notes from Underground". The depression is painful, you're sapped/consumed by yourself; the worse the depression, the more you just think about yourself and the stranger and repellent you appear to others.”
― David Foster Wallace

“Life was moving forward, always. The world was not going to stop, change was inevitable, finding a way back was a struggle against the current.”
― Jessica Bryant Klagmann, This Impossible Brightness

“Perhaps this is what it means to go mad: to be emptied and to be aware of the emptiness.”
― David Foster Wallace