Jasmine Warga, My Heart And Other Black Holes Quotes

Do you believe in other universes? Do you think there's another dimension where we're happy?

I think he's looking for comfort, but I don't have any to give.

I can't wait until they don't have me here anymore.

I don't know how to describe it, but the more I stare at him, the more I see his grief wrapped around him like shackles he can never take off.

He knows what he'll find if he digs deeper. there's no rush to unpack my insides. he understands there is nothing special about emptiness, nothing interesting about depression.

I bet if you cut open my stomach, the black slug of depression would slide out.

There's no saving him from his deep hole. There's no saving me from my black slug.

I've been thinking a lot aboit the energy of the universe. And if energy can't ever be created or destroyed, only transferred, what do you think happens to people's energy once they die?

I can feel everything. And I want to keep feeling everything. Even the painful, awful, terrible things. Because feeling things is what lets us know that we're alive.

You're like a grey sky. You're beautiful, even though you don't want to be.

Something inside me clicks. It's like I've spent my whole life fiddling with a complicated combination only to discover I was toying with the wrong lock.

Anyone who has actually been that sad can tell you that there's nothing beautiful or literary or mysterious about depression.

Maybe we all have darkness inside of us and some of us are better at dealing with it than others.

He can't make me love him when he's going to leave me.

I wonder if that's how darkness wins, by convincing us to trap it inside ourselves, instead of emptying it out.I don't want it to win.

..because never in my life have I ever been picked when there was another alternative.

I will be stronger than my sadness.

Sometimes I wonder if my heart is like a black hole--it's so dense that there's no room for light, but that doesn't mean it can't still suck me in.