Trauma

“Another secret of the universe: sometimes pain was like a storm that came out of nowhere. The clearest summer could end in a downpour. Could end in lightning and thunder.”

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“I can be anything I want / Without my legs or my hair / Without my genes or my blood / With no name and no type of story / Where do I live? Tell me, where do I exist?”

— IMMATERIAL, Sophie

“You have no idea what I'm going through right now.”

“Then tell me. That's how this works. You talk to me about it so that I can take your hand and fucking walk through this shit with you. That is what I signed up for, OK? But I cannot do that if you won't let me in.”

— Short Term 12.

“Then the day when the sadness comes. Then we ask, ‘Will the sadness which makes me cry, will the sadness that makes me cry my heart out, will it ever end?’ The answer, of course, is yes. One day, the sadness will end. One day, the sadness will end.”

— Log Lady Introductions, Twin Peaks