💬📚 “I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix.” Arthur Conan Doyle, The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes

📚💬 “Sickness wasn’t sexy. And her disability was invisible—she wasn’t missing a limb or in a full-body cast. Her level of suffering seemed impossible for others to fathom. After all, everyone got headaches sometimes, like during coffee withdrawal or the flu. So she hid it.” Tia Williams, Seven Days in June

📚💬 “What was it like, the luxury of not hurting?… she’d never stop fantasizing about being unsick.” Tia Williams, Seven Days in June

💬📚 “As a double major in creative writing and advanced melancholia, Eva had accidentally stumbled upon this life.” Tia Williams, Seven Days in June

So relatable.

💬📚 “It’s easy to take one’s own enthusiasms for granted; it’s much harder to explain them.” Mary Beard, Talking Classics

💬📚 “I love the days when my body cooperates.” Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

💬📚📝 “I offer up the idea of the safety of a sentence for you right now, the possibility of a place to put yourself, to put your heart. A place to rest for a while from these feverish days.” Jami Attenberg, 1000 Words

💬📚📝 “How do I cut through all the constant buzzing around me and capture the simple truths? With the slash of a sentence.” Jami Attenberg, 1000 Words

🔮📚💬 “You don’t need to push or clear away your humanness to sit with the numinous.” Lindsay Mack, Tarot for the Wild Soul.

🔮📚💬 Lindsay Mack, Tarot for the Wild Soul:

…the Tarot cannot reliably tell us when something will end or how something will turn out. It doesn’t consistently fix, heal, or tell us precisely what will happen or when it will happen. But it can be medicine in the face of deep pain. It can help us come home to and stay with ourselves, no matter what might be arising.