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“My sadness is a thousand-foot well; gratitude is a rope keeping me from drowning.”

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Book:Survived By: A Memoir in Verse + Other Poems

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“I never thought I would feel lucky to have pain dripping from my pores, pain stuck to the pads of my fingers, to the bottoms of my feet, to have pain become the core of my identity in an instant, but here I am.”

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Book:Survived By: A Memoir in Verse + Other Poems

Source: Survived By: A Memoir in Verse + Other Poems

“Hope is useless.” My voice drops. The mere word crawls beneath my skin, makes me wince at the sound. “It’s nearsighted and blind to the fact that it always fails.”

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Book:I Fell in Love With Hope

Source: I Fell in Love With Hope

“When the first faint glow of dawn crept into the cave Moon-Watcher saw that his father had died in the night. He did not know the Old One was his father, for such a relationship was utterly beyond his understanding, but as he looked at the emaciated body he felt a dim disquiet that was the ancestor of sadness”

Death Sadness Prehistory

Book:2001: A Space Odyssey

Source: 2001: A Space Odyssey

“Each being's entitled to her privacy, so I refused to let them see me. I was the only person on that tiny rock, and I made the world go dark.”

Book:This Is How You Lose the Time War

Source: This Is How You Lose the Time War

“The tears dried. And I felt lonely. I missed those voices. I missed the minds behind them. I wanted to be seen. That need dug into the heart of me. It felt good”

Pain Sadness Longing

Book:This Is How You Lose the Time War

Source: This Is How You Lose the Time War

“The thing is, I don’t want my sadness to be othered from me just as I don’t want my happiness to be othered. They’re both mine. I made them, dammit. What if the elation is not another ‘bipolar episode’ but something I fought hard for? Maybe I jump up and down and kiss you too hard on the neck when I learn, upon coming home, that it’s pizza night because sometimes pizza night is more than enough, is my most faithful and feeble beacon. What if I’m running outside because the moon tonight is children’s-book huge and ridiculous over the line of pines, the sight of it a strange sphere of medicine?”

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Book:On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Source: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“So I screamed for my lack of control, and screamed because Jesse couldn’t love me, and screamed because I’d finally found a normal life and it was taken away just like that. I screamed for the injustice of it all. They found Jesse’s heart beat about the same time I lost my voice. I was glad to give up one for the other.”

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“I’m living according to the law of hand outs, I’m living under the law of charity, I’m living under the law of being used.”

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“Love is not only about sacrifice, but about being worth sacrificing for. If it is not mutual, it is not love, it is a lie”

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“A great part of everyday is not lived consciously. One walks, eats, sees things, deals with what has to be done; the broken vacuum cleaner; ordering dinner; writing orders to Mabel; washing; cooking dinner; bookbinding. When it is a bad day the proportion of non-being is much larger.”

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Book:A Sketch of the Past

Source: A Sketch of the Past