just when i think i’m drowned by grief and depression, that my chest can’t bear the weight and my breath comes ragged, how could i possibly move forward, onward, through? i hear the high-pitched incandescent giddy giggle of a small child while walking through the park, a white butterfly flits across my line of vision, just brushing the tip of my nose, i’m surrounded by the hum of immutable nature, and before i know it i’m smiling again. silly me... i’ve lived through this a hundred times, i can do it again.
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Lidia Yuknavitch, from The Chronology of Water
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We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadnesses of life and the often overwhelming forces within our minds. In whatever way we do this—through love, work, family, faith, friends, denial, alcohol, drugs, or medication, we build these walls, stone by stone, over a lifetime.
Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind