“I guess I wonder what it would be like, to be living their live instead of mine.”

“Torture: knowing something makes no sense, but doing it anyways.”

“...The human mind is a complicated place...We hold on to things, images, words, ideas, histories that we don't even know we're holding on to.”

“Feelings are like blankets, covering you up so you can't see clearly, or like mazes you can too easily get lost inside. I am terrified of getting lost.”

“Meditation did not relieve me of my anxiety so much as flesh it out. It took my anxious response to the world, about which I felt a lot of confusion and shame, and let me understand it more complet...”

“All this wondering was the weather vane on top of the building of unrest and of discontent”

“Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.”