“He knows what he'll find if he digs deeper. there's no rush to unpack my insides. he understands there is nothing special about emptiness, nothing interesting about depression.”
Jasmine Warga“Anyone who has actually been that sad can tell you that there's nothing beautiful or literary or mysterious about depression.Depression is like a heaviness that you can't ever escape. It crushes down on you, making even the smallest things like tying your shoes or chewing on toast seem like a twenty-mile hike uphill. Depression is a part of you; it's in your bones and your blood.”
Jasmine Warga“I think he's looking for comfort, but I don't have any to give.”
Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes“I don't know how to describe it, but the more I stare at him, the more I see his grief wrapped around him like shackles he can never take off.”
Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes“He knows what he'll find if he digs deeper. there's no rush to unpack my insides. he understands there is nothing special about emptiness, nothing interesting about depression.”
Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes“I've been thinking a lot aboit the energy of the universe. And if energy can't ever be created or destroyed, only transferred, what do you think happens to people's energy once they die?”
Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes“Anyone who has actually been that sad can tell you that there's nothing beautiful or literary or mysterious about depression.”
Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes“Something inside me clicks. It's like I've spent my whole life fiddling with a complicated combination only to discover I was toying with the wrong lock.”
Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes“I once read in my physics book that the universe begs to be observed, that energy travels and transfers when people pay attention. Maybe that's what love really boils down to--having someone who cares enough to pay attention so that you're encouraged to travel and transfer, to make your potential energy spark into kinetic energy.”
Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes“Maybe we all have darkness inside of us and some of us are better at dealing with it than others.”
Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes“..because never in my life have I ever been picked when there was another alternative.”
Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes