Ginger

“An inability to meet the real demands of love is one of the essential characteristics of neurosis; the patients are dominated by the opposition of reality and fantasy. They will flee from what they long for most intensely in their fantasies if they encounter it in real life, and they are most likely to abandon themselves to fantasies when they no longer need to fear their realization.”
― Sigmund Freud, A Case of Hysteria: Dora

“There is something in you I like more than yourself. Therefore I must destroy you”
― Jacques Lacan

“Anxiety, as we know, is always connected with a loss…with a two-sided relation on the point of fading away to be superseded by something else, something which the patient cannot face without vertigo”
― Jacques Lacan

“Some days simply lay on you like stones. Some were fickle as cats, sliding away when you needed comfort, then coming back later when you didn’t want them, jostling at you, stealing your breath.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Slow Regard of Silent Things