Zoe

“I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

“Never feel embarrassed for feeling so deeply. That is your superpower.”
― Robin S. Baker

“Depression’s defining symptom is anhedonia, the inability to feel, anticipate, or pursue pleasure. Chronic stress depletes the mesolimbic system of dopamine, generating anhedonia. The link between childhood adversity and adult depression involves both organizational effects on the developing mesolimbic system and elevated adult glucocorticoid levels, which can deplete dopamine.”
― Robert M. Sapolsky, Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

“Sometimes, even the pain itself has great significance. People who are not feeling are not really living. To feel again, they can exchange anything. Not just a feeling of happiness, but also of rage, melancholy, and pain.”
― Asif Hossain, Veronica