"If you're good at reading people, it's mostly because you learned as a child, trying to stay one step ahead of whatever tormented you. Now, if they really did a number on you, then that crack it's a hollow, then you'll never be enough, there's no filling that." Nightmare Alley
quotes to live by
Facing Nightmares
A nightmare's purpose is to reveal a dreamer's fear, that they may face them." Morpheus, The Sandman
No Wisdom Needed
"The best we can do sometimes, in absence of actual wisdom, is to simply cease to being foolish." Paper & Blood, Kevin Hearne
Knowledge is key
"You can't fight battles you don't know about Blake," The Jock Script, Lane Hayes
The Cleansing Fire
The truth is a cleansing fire...which burns away the lies we've told each other...and the lies we've told ourselves. So that love and hate, pleasure and pain, can all be expressed without shame. Where there is no good or bad there is only the truth." John Dee, The Sandman (2022)
What?!
"I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve."Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice.
Words to live by
"One thing at a time and the most important first."The Eye of the World, Robert Jordan
Guilt & Rational emotions
"Guilt was a poison sometimes, eating away at rational emotions."An Echo in the Sorrow, Soulbound VII, by Hailey Turner
Understanding is key
"The hardest things to talk about, are the ones we ourselves can't understand."The Lost Daughter, Elena Ferrante.
Brutality to Mercy
"Sometimes brutality is the only path to mercy."The Wheel of Time S1
Worn Out Spines 