“I'm not really here anymore. I'm watching family time from outside my body. Through the glass, I see them, laughing and placing tiles. I see me, playing my part, smiling when I'm supposed to smile. But inside my head, the worries have slithered in, uninvited. This is how it always starts. With a thought.” AnxietyThe Words We Keep Author:Erin Stewart
“Everyone will know, once and for all, the Lily I've worked so hard to hide.” HiddenThe Words We Keep Author:Erin Stewart
“Well, the truth is, if I were okay, I wouldn't be asleep at four in the afternoon. I wouldn't have spent the last week in bed, trying to stay unconscious.” The Words We Keep Author:Erin Stewart
“Oh right. That's all I ever hear. 'Look our for Alice.' 'Don't anger Alice.' 'Help Alice.' Alice, Alice, Alice. Do you know what it's like to find your sister on the bathroom floor with a blade pressed to her skin? Do you know what that does to a person?” SisterSelf HarmThe Words We Keep Author:Erin Stewart
“Negativity is totally unnatural. It is a psychic pollutant, and there is a deep link between the poisoning and destruction of nature and the vast negativity that has accumulated in the collective human psyche. No other life-form on the planet knows negativity, only humans, just as no other life-form violates and poisons the Earth that sustains it. Have you ever seen an unhappy flower or a stressed oak tree? Have you some across a depressed dolphin, a frog that has a problem with self-esteem, a cat that cannot relax, or a bird that carries hatred and resentment? The only animals that may occasionally experience something akin to negativity or show signs of neurotic behavior are those that live in close contact with humans and so link into the humans mind and its insanity.” Spirituality Author:Eckhart Tolle