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It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth

by Zoe Thorogood · 2022

It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth is an intimate and metanarrative look into the life of a selfish artist who must create for her own survival. A poignant and original depiction of a young woman's struggle with mental… more

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You're going to spend infinitely more time being dead than alive, so it's probably best to make peace with it while you can.
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And maybe that 'something' is a piece of my stupid little soul trapped in a book with very divisive reviews on Goodreads!
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But if you could ask God for the answers, would his response make you happy?
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maybe she never really wanted to kill herself. Sometimes it felt like a performance, a performance for no audience, but it felt like acting nonetheless.
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Enjoy those peaceful few seconds before you remember your own name. It's usually downhill from there.
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So I thought - Why not see being suicidal as some kind of power? If I'm not doing whatever I want, I may as well be dead. I can take risks that other people can't. Total disregard for my own life means that I get to be completely irresponsible.
that's the problem with flirting with the idea of something, sometimes you fall in

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It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth is an intimate and metanarrative look into the life of a selfish artist who must create for her own survival. A poignant and original depiction of a young woman's struggle with mental health—through the ups and downs of anxiety, depression, and imposter syndrome—as she forges a promising career in sequential art and finds herself along the way.

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2022
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4.17 (13k ratings)

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