Under the Whispering Door

by T.J. Klune

Everyone is a little bit sad all the time.

“It’s easy to let yourself spiral and fall.” “It is,” Nelson agreed. “But it’s what you do to pull yourself out of it that matters most.”

Anxiety is … a betrayal, my brain and body working against me.”

“I don’t want it to affect me as it does, but I can’t always stop it. I know what I’m supposed to be doing, I know my job is important. But what I want and what my body does are sometimes two different things.”

“But isn’t that life? We second-guess everything because it’s in our nature. People with anxiety and depression just tend to do it more.”