Brittany Hanson

“In the absence of hope we must still struggle to survive, and so we do - by the skin of our teeth.”
― William Styron, Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness

“Don't leave me here alone. Don't go where I can't follow.”
― JRR Tolkien, The Lord Of The Rings

“It was not really alarming at first, since the change was subtle, but I did notice that my surroundings took on a different tone at certain times: the shadows of nightfall seemed more somber, my mornings were less buoyant, walks in the woods became less zestful, and there was a moment during my working hours in the late afternoon when a kind of panic and anxiety overtook me, just for a few minutes, accompanied by a visceral queasiness.”
― William Styron, Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness

“such incomprehension has usually been due not to a failure of sympathy but to the basic inability of healthy people to imagine a form of torment so alien to everyday experience.”
― William Styron, Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness