When trauma gets triggered you don't act your age, you act the age the wound was created" - Dr Gabor Maté.

I despise the kind of book which tells you how to live, how to make yourself happy! Philosophers have no good news for you at this level! I believe the first duty of philosophy is making you understand what deep shit you are in!

I avoid mirrors now, particularly when the strong light of morning reveals what I don't wish to see, —Linda Pastan, from Insomnia: Poems; "Musings Before Sleep.

I never wish to 'be easily defined. I'd rather float over other people's minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person. —FRANZ KAFKA. Diaries (23 March 1914)

"If it was a piece of paper, I would tear it. If it was a bottle, I would break it. If it was a wall, I would tear it down - But it's my heart." -Mahmoud Darwish.