Bre > Bre's Quotes

“Manic-depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and will to live. It is an illness that is biological in its origins, yet one that feels psychological in the experience of it, an illness that is unique in conferring advantage and pleasure, yet one that brings in its wake almost unendurable suffering and, not infrequently, suicide.”
― Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

“I had a terrible temper, after all, and though it rarely erupted, when it did it frightened me and anyone near its epicenter. It was the only crack, but a disturbing one, in the otherwise vacuum-sealed casing of my behavior.”
― Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

“May she wander but always return home, may all her words be written true, may every door lie open before her.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January

“Every time you take one path, you must live with the memory of the other: of a life left unchosen. Decide as seems best, one course or the other; each way will have its bitter with its sweet.”
― Katherine Arden, The Girl in the Tower

“Close your eyes," he said into her ear. "Come with me." She did so, and suddenly she saw what he saw. She was the wind, the clouds gathering in the smoky sky, the thick snow of deep winter. She was nothing. She was everything. The power gathered somewhere in the space between them, between her flickers of awareness. There is no magic. Things are. Or they are not. She was beyond wanting anything. She didn't care whether she lived or died. She could only feel; the gathering storm, the breath of the wind.”
― Katherine Arden, The Girl in the Tower

“i have a history of staying in places i’ve long outgrown. you see, i was always told to stay as small as possible— even if it’s uncomfortable, even if it hurts. from this day forward, i vow to let myself bloom freely— even if others see me as an annoyance, even if they see me as a weed. —wild violet.”
― Amanda Lovelace, Flower Crowns & Fearsome Things

“everyone loves a strong woman
until that woman
no longer tolerates their bullshit.
-the age-old proverb”
― Amanda Lovelace, Flower Crowns and Fearsome Things

“contrary to popular belief,
i have no interest in vengance.

the thing about karma
is that she's a bitch
& she's a bitch that can always be counted on,

so i leave everything in her
all-too-eager hands.
-the threefold law.”
― Amanda Lovelace, Flower Crowns and Fearsome Things

“i refuse to be ashamed
of taking up my rightful.
i refuse to apologize
for daring to have an opinion.
—it’s a pleasure to disappoint you.”
― Amanda Lovelace, Flower Crowns and Fearsome Things

“never once has she felt as if she’s interesting enough to be the daring heroine of her own story, & she’s oddly okay with that. —she likes being nobody.”
― Amanda Lovelace, Flower Crowns & Fearsome Things

“Under the light of the full moon
she dances about wildly,
hoping an otherworldly being
will come whisk her away
& take her on a grand adventure.

- she's so done with reality”
― Amanda Lovelace, Flower Crowns and Fearsome Things

“And then Just like the seashells,  I’ll keep picking my shattered self Off of the shore.”
― Tejaswini Divya Naik, Smokes And Whiskey