V Robinson

“The cognitive style of individuals with paranoid personality disorder deserves special mention. Overtly, they have a legalistic bent, sharp attention, rich vocabulary, hypervigilance, and a tendency toward perceptual hairsplitting; they often possess striking oratorial skills. Covertly, however, they are unable to grasp the “big picture.” They readily dismiss the obvious, including any evidence that is contradictory to their preexisting beliefs. Their attention is narrow and biased. They are experts in seeing the “truth” but almost always fail to grasp the “whole truth.”
― Salman Akhtar, Quest for Answers: A Primer of Understanding and Treating Severe Personality Disorders

“Hillel, I love you. In my dreams, I love you. In my soberest assessment, I love you. In my thoughtless silence, the sun rises and sets for you.”
― Flea, Acid for the Children: A Memoir

“Every day she felt unnerved by how unreasonable her love and her fury, which had become one, seemed. She spent most days feeling stunned, aware only of a sort of rage swirling loose inside her like a rainstorm gathering speed, and it frightened her to think of what might happen if she were to let it implode.”
― Huma Qureshi, Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love

“There is a bird in my chest

with wings too broad

with beak that rips me

wanting to get out.

I have called it an idiot parrot.

I have called it

a ravening eagle.

But it sings.

Bird of no name

your cries are red and wet

on the iron air.

I open my mouth

to let you out

and your shining

blinds me.”
― Marge Piercy, Hard loving:Poems