“Gaslighting” is a term for psychological manipulation in which an abuser denies that any harm is taking place, prompting the target of abuse to question reality.
“If clouds are blocking the sun, there will always be a silver lining that reminds me to keep on trying.”
― The Silver Linings Playbook
― The Silver Linings Playbook
“What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Did you ever think about all of the nights you lived through and can't remember The ones that were so mundane your brain just didn't bother to record them. Hundreds, maybe thousands of nights come and go without being preserved by our memory. Does that ever freak you out? Like maybe your mind recorded all of the wrong nights?”
― Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock
― Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock
“The half-shut eyes were dim with the infinite cynicism of adult life.”
― Lord of the Flies
― Lord of the Flies
“Besides, it doesn't matter if it's real. It never does with dreams. They aren't anything anyway but lifesavers to cling to so you don't drown. Life is an ocean, and most everyone's hanging on to some kind of dream to keep afloat.”
― The Spectacular Now
― The Spectacular Now
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