shewassofree

“When we grow up, we find ways to hide our anxieties, our loneliness, our fear and sorrow. But children hide nothing, putting everything into their tears, which they spread liberally about for the whole world to see.”

„I guess when you’re young, you just believe there’ll be many people… you’ll connect with. Later in life, you realize it only happens a few times.”

sometimes i'm shocked by it. you know when you put in new contacts after using old ones for a while and you're like oh the trees have leaves and everyone around you laughs? every time i find something new i love i feel like i'm seeing leaves for the first time. yesterday i remembered i love sudden rainstorms. oh yeah, i love this thing. my heart is full of trees i forget to notice.

“I am afraid to touch / anyone who might stay / long enough to make leaving / an echo”

I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.

“More than 17.3 million adults in the United States have experienced a major depressive episode, and an estimated 46.6 million adults have experienced some kind of mental illness in their lifetime. That’s 1 in 5 people. … How can we pretend [mental illness] doesn’t exist? That it isn’t significant and worthy of attention? The problem is only growing, and we just keep putting it off for the next generation to deal with. We have to acknowledge that these dark alleyways, these flickering streetlights and graffitied buildings, are still part of our city. They exist here and now, and can’t be pushed to the fringes.”

“You have saved yourself from drowning every time before this. You will rescue yourself again.”