“The memory of sustenance is a terrible thing. Far worse, I think, than actual starving. Starving just kills you. Longing can gnaw away at you forever.” — Terri Cheney Copy Share Image
“It’s a little-known secret, and it should probably stay that way: attempting suicide usually jump-starts your brain chemistry. There must be something about taking… — Terri Cheney Copy Share
“...love is a chemical imbalance, too. That perilous highs and desperate lows and extravagant flurries of mood are not always symptoms of a broken… — Terri Cheney Copy Share
True beauty, I realized,is not the absence of ugliness, but the acceptance of it — Terri Cheney Copy Share
“The memory of sustenance is a terrible thing. Far worse, I think, than actual starving. Starving just kills you. Longing can gnaw away at… — Terri Cheney Copy Share
“These flies were half the size of my fist. They came at you and stuck to you with a single-minded purpose you had to… — Terri Cheney Copy Share
“Was drug induced happy still happy? Was it the right kind of happy? Did it count?” — Terri Cheney Copy Share
“I actually stopped talking. I actually listened. So I knew that I wasn't all the way manic, because when you're all the way manic… — Terri Cheney Copy Share
“[ ] manic sex isn't really intercourse. It's dicourse, just another way to ease the insatiable need for contact and communication. In place of… — Terri Cheney Copy Share
“The world is essentially bipolar: driven to extremes but defined by flux. Saints are always just a stumble away from sinners. Nothing is absolute,… — Terri Cheney Copy Share
“Happiness is fine, in its season, but happiness out of season is a sure harbinger of doom.” — Terri Cheney Copy Share
“Stories don't always have to end happily.. Sometimes it's just enough that they end.” — Terri Cheney Copy Share
“The cruelest curse of the disease is also its most sacred promise: You will not feel this way forever.” — Terri Cheney Copy Share
