"You must be unhappy about something and that's why you can't see what's around you."
"Yes, I'm unhappy about something," she answered, "and I can't see anything at all."
– Violette Leduc, The Golden Buttons
[ID: 3 green leaves with text stamped on them. They say "It's so hot and the sky's so blue", "I want people to know me", "but it's so hard to tell them". ]
“Touch conceals all kinds of violence and all kinds of gentleness, as well as all the violent gentle things. In a certain sense all touch is violent. The softest of touches puts a limit on intactness, yours or mine.”
— Portraits of Portraits: The Very Day/Light of Roni Horn, Hélène Cixous, tr. Eric Prenowitz
I thought I had been surviving, and yet, what I was really doing was hanging by a string, loosely holding myself from collapsing. I was always on the verge, and I could feel that friction in my soul.
Fariha Róisín, from Who Is Wellness For?: An Examination of Wellness Culture and Who It Leaves Behind