The Secret Life

“Depression is flat, hollow, and unendurable. It is also tiresome. People cannot abide being around you when you are depressed. They might think that they ought to, and they might even try, but you know and they know that you are tedious beyond belief. You are irritable and paranoid and humorless and lifeless and critical and demanding and no reassurance is ever enough.”

“I’m not afraid of my truth anymore, and I will not omit pieces of myself to make you more comfortable.”

“Talk with people who make you see the world differently.”

“What’s the worst thing I’ve stolen? Probably little pieces of other people’s lives. Where I’ve either wasted their time or hurt them in some way. That’s the worst thing you can steal, the time of other people. You just can’t get that back.”

“Honestly I don’t even play an active role in my life. Shit just happens and I’m like oh is this what we’re doing now? Ok.”

“All of the years I spent trying to be someone you could be proud of would have been better spent being proud of myself for who I already was.”

“No matter how long you’ve been with them, there’s no excuse for a lack of attention.”

“To have someone understand your mind is a different kind of intimacy.”