You can get used to anything – haven’t I already said that? Isn’t that what all survivors say?

Blessed be shock. Blessed be the part of us that protects us from too much pain and sorrow. At the heart of life is a fusebox.

yann martel

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My head was a condemned church with a ceiling of bats, but I swung from this dark mood to euphoria when I thought about leaving.

dave eggers

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