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1 " my thoughts are spirographs;think intricate patterns of loops,think waves that never break. "
― Sabrina Benaim , Depression & Other Magic Tricks
2 " mom says where did anxiety come from?anxiety is the cousin visiting from out of towndepression felt obliged to bring to the party.mom, i am the party.only, i am a party i don't want to be at. "
3 " i held handswith my sadness,sang it songs in the shower,fed it lunch,got it drunk& put it to bed early. "
4 " insomnia has this romantic way of making the moon feel like perfect company. "
5 " my heart has developed a kind of amnesia, where it remembers everything but itself. "
6 " mom still doesn't understand.mom,can't you see?neither do i. "
7 " how do i teach my ears to hear songs without the ghosts of you inside of them? "
8 " i am sleepwalking on an ocean of happiness i cannot baptize myself in. "
9 " My heart is a messy bedroom I always distract myself from cleaning. "
10 " it's weird how a jacket can be more reliable than a father. "
11 " mom, i am lonely.i think i learnt it when dad left;how to turn the anger into lonely,the lonely into busy. "
12 " sure, i make plans. i make plans but i don't want to go. i make plans because i know i should want to go, i know at some point i would have wanted to go, it's just not that much fun having fun when you don't want to have fun. "
13 " i wouldn't say I'm sensitive, I would say I'm highly susceptible to feeling a lot "
14 " when i see a candle, i see the flesh of a church.the flicker of life sparks a memory younger than noon;i am standing beside her open casket,it is the moment i realize every person i ever come to know will someday die,besides, mom, i'm not afraid of the dark,perhaps that is part of the problem. "
15 " my happy is a high fever that will break, my happy is as hollow as a pin-pricked egg "
16 " we cannot control what we remember, but we can control how we remember. "
17 " love made me feel like I knew the answer, but when I raised my hand, I was the only one in the room. What I mean is, have you ever felt the ache of swallowing starlight? that cinnamon burn? "
18 " everybody loves me because i'm good at making people feel good. i'm good at making people feel good because i have had a lot of practice on myself "
― Sabrina Benaim
19 " silent treatment: the fantastic devastation of unwanted silence. that heavy slink; how it hangs with purpose; mean, easy. "
20 " i miss you, but i don't wish you were here. "
