“Some children, you see, don't need wars or famines or plagues to convince them that vegetables have the right idea about life. Some children are convinced from the start.” ChildrenWarDespairPlagueFamineCatatonia Book:The Troika Source: The Troika
“My body was a wax shell. A frozen thing. I could move, but I didn’t belong in it. I was watching myself collapse.” TraumaAlienationSurrealismParalysisIdentity CrisisDisassociationBody HorrorOut Of Body ExperienceCatatoniaMental Collapse Book:Sex, Drugs, and Schizophrenia Source: Sex, Drugs, and Schizophrenia
“Everything, that she was saying, now, everything that she saw and heard, took place in a deep numbness, in which all the senses are stilled and a person exists not in one's own life but with some emergency life that is stuck onto one. In such situations fear, pain, surprise and enlightenment come later, and until such time as one comes to one's senses, this sober, sturdy, and almost unfeeling mechanism takes over.” ShockShockedShockingCatatonicCatatonia Book:Live and Remember Source: Live and Remember