My Darling Dreadful Thing

by Johanna van Veen

“I can’t think right now. If I do, I’ll think and feel too much.”

I just felt excluded. If anything, that’s not jealousy, but envy. But it wasn’t that, either. It just hurt, is all.”

Once people believe you’re mad, anything you do will convince them more.

“Do not seek to correct what you don’t understand,” she said.