“Maybe we all have darkness inside of us and some of us are better at dealing with it than others.”

“Maybe we all have darkness inside of us and some of us are better at dealing with it than others.”

“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.”

“I think he's looking for comfort, but I don't have any to give.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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?”

“Anyone who has actually been that sad can tell you that there's nothing beautiful or literary or mysterious about depression.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Maybe we all have darkness inside of us and some of us are better at dealing with it than others.”

“..because never in my life have I ever been picked when there was another alternative.”