Heartsick Quotes

“It’s rare in life that you know how much you’re enjoying something at the precise moment you’re enjoying it. Happiness is something more often felt in retrospect – a sensation you later ascribe to memories.”
― Jessie Stephens, Heartsick

“What do you do when the person responsible for your pain is the one who is meant to fix it?”
― Jessie Stephens, Heartsick

“When people describe depression, they talk about the sadness. But they don't tell you that what's worse is the madness. Not knowing if you can trust your instincts because your instincts are sick. Your instincts are leading you down a steady plank to a kind of death. those instincts tell you to sleep. Don't move. Don't speak to anyone. Extricate yourself, like a cat that disappears before it dies. It's a feeling that lives in your skin and flows through your blood. With it comes the knowledge that it's not the world that's bad. It's you that's bad. And the world, really, is no more than two eyes and the light that lives behind them.”
― Jessie Stephens, Heartsick

“But the thing about feeling something in your chest and your stomach and your hands is that you're not sure if you can trust it. She knows she's losing her mind. But is this sensation part of the sane mind she still has left? Or is it part of what's lost? How do you trust your own mind when it's playing tricks on you? When it's half mad and half sane?”
― Jessie Stephens, Heartsick