Syncuvane

“Despair is always described as dull, when the truth is that despair has a light all its own, a lunar glow, the color of mottled silver.”
― Daphne Merkin, This Close to Happy: A Reckoning with Depression

“It was one thing to be depressed in your twenties or thirties, when the aspect of youth gave it an undeniable poignancy, a certain tattered charm; it was another thing entirely to be depressed in middle age, when you were supposed to have come to terms with life’s failings, as well as your own.”
― Daphne Merkin, This Close to Happy: A Reckoning with Depression

“What would it be like as an adult to open my eyes with a feeling of even mild anticipation?”
― Daphne Merkin, This Close to Happy: A Reckoning with Depression

“When I stop getting tripped up by your crooked heart and your small hands, I will want to go over all of your poems with white out. I will want to rinse your name out of my mouth, snuff out all the evidence that I thought the sun and moon of you because the world was not enough.”
― Trista Mateer, Honeybee