The sadness, the silence, the darkness, the loneliness... all of it held in a simple little moment. It was just so... I don't know. Just so much.
Kevin BrooksIt's not easy-living in a void, living and dying inside your headโฆwanting what you want so much that you'd give everything else to get it- but the time still passes, the days go onโฆand as long as there's still a tomorrow, there's always a chance.
Kevin BrooksI wanted to turn everything off, too. Just press a button - click - and shut myself down. Turn off my heart, turn off my mind, turn off my body - just lie there, senseless, like a dormant tree in winter, waiting for the spring to return.
Kevin BrooksIt won't make you feel any better, he told me, it might even make things worse for a while. But you mustn't let the sadness die inside you. You have to give it some life.
Kevin Brooks