“I can deal with pain. I always have and always will. But that’s familiar pain. It’s the pain I can – to some degree – adapt to and understand. This is too much. Too overwhelming. What’s almost as bad is that I’m bone tired. Tired enough that part of me wants to curl up and stay here, screw the consequences.”

“I can deal with pain. I always have and always will. But that’s familiar pain. It’s the pain I can – to some degree – adapt to and understand. This is too much. Too overwhelming. What’s almost as bad is that I’m bone tired. Tired enough that part of me wants to curl up and stay here, screw the consequences.”

— Marieke Nijkamp