I R I S

“Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying in essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved.”

“Whatever you do, never run back to what broke you.”

“I want so much that is not here and I do not know where to go.”

“You shouldn’t have to apologize for what it is you’re feeling. You’re human and you are allowed to feel. Remember that.”

“It’s so difficult to describe depression to someone who’s never been there, because it’s not sadness. I know sadness. Sadness is to cry and to feel. But it’s that cold absence of feeling— that really hollowed-out feeling.”