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"I want to go to sleep and not wake up, but I don't want to die."
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"It is said that scattered through Despair's domain are a multitude of tiny windows, hanging in the void. Each window looks out onto a different scene, being, in our world, a mirror. Sometimes you will look into a mirror and feel the eyes of Despair upon you, feel her hook catch and snag on your heart. Despair says little, and is patient."
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"In every way that counted, I was dead. Inside somewhere maybe I was screaming and weeping and howling like an animal, but that was another person deep inside, another person who had no access to the lips and face and mouth and head, so on the surface I just shrugged and smile and kept moving. If I could have physically passed away, just let it all go, like that, without doing anything, stepped out of life as easily as walking through a door I would have done. But I was going to sleep at night and waking in the morning, disappointed to be there and resigned to existence."
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"You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy."
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"Then he slid the silk and his fingers into her open palm.And Eleanor disintegrated."
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"Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair."
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"Anything, anything to stop drowning in this dull, trivial and cowardly existence."
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"When you get to know me, I don't despair - I just get up, clean up, and start again."
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"Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds."
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"I've found a different way to scent the air: already it's a by-word for despair."
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"We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else."
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"Me: 'All right, but you said we had to put emotion into our art. I don't know what that means. I don't know what I'm supposed to feel."
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"There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an unexpected laugh, a mirror that doesn't matter anymore."
Recovery
"I need a new friend. I need a friend, period. Not a true friend, nothing close or share clothes or sleepover giggle giggle yak yak. Just a pseudo-friend, disposable friend. Friend as accessory. Just so I don't feel or look so stupid."
Social
"I stuff my mouth with old fabric and scream until there are no sounds left under my skin."
Trauma
"It was hard to know how to play the game when the rules kept changing."
Uncertainty
"It doesn't matter where I go, I don't want to be there. And then I get to the next place, and I don't want to be there either."
Existentialism
"Revision means throwing out the boring crap and making what's left sound natural."
Creativity
"IT happened. There is no avoiding it, no forgetting. No running away, or flying, or burying, or hiding."
Acceptance
"In one aspect, yes, I believe in ghosts, but we create them. We haunt ourselves."
Fear
"There is something about Christmas that requires a rug rat. Little kids make Christmas fun. I wonder if could rent one for the holidays. When I was tiny we would by a real tree and stay up late drinking hot chocolate and finding just the right place for the special decorations. It seems like my parents gave up the magic when I figured out the Santa lie. Maybe I shouldn't have told them I knew where the presents really came from. It broke their hearts."
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