myrrh

“One of the most human things about anxiety is that we try to cure chaos with chaos. Someone who has got themselves into a catastrophic situation rarely retreats from it, we’re far more inclined to carry on even faster. We’ve created lives where we can watch other people crash into the wall but still hope that somehow we’re going to pass straight through it. The closer we get, the more confidently we believe that some unlikely solution is miraculously going to save us, while everyone watching us is just waiting for the crash.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“Sometimes it hurts, it really hurts, for no other reason than the fact that our skin doesn't feel like it's ours.”
― Fredrik Backman

“Sometimes we don't need distance, just barriers”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“We're not lost. We're just headed somewhere different.”
― Emily X.R. Pan, The Astonishing Color of After