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- [I] learned ... that friends are a good source of food and soul when one has not yet gotten the hang of cooking or living…
- My parents say that even as a very, very little kid, the way that I acted was dramatically different from other little kids.
- It is not a sudden leap from sick to well. It is a slow, strange meander from sick to mostly well. The misconception that eating…
- Hospitalizations in general are blurry. The days are the same, precisely the same. Nothing changes. Life melts down to a simple progression of meals. They…
- I was perpetually grief-stricken when I finished a book, and would slide down from my sitting position on the bed, put my cheek on the…
- I do not remember very many things from the inside out. I do not remember what it felt like to touch things, or how bathwater…
- The idea of my future simultaneously thrilled and terrified me, like standing at the lip of a very sheer cliff- I could fly, or fall.…
- There are women in my closet, hanging on the hangers. a different woman for each suit, each dress, each pair of shoes. I hoard clothes.…
- When you are mad, mad like this, you don't know it. Reality is what you see. When what you see shifts, departing from anyone else's…
- Madness is not what it seems. Time stops. All my life I've been obsessed with time, its motion and velocity, the way it works you…
- All of us carry around countless bags of dusty old knickknacks dated from childhood: collected resentments, long list of wounds of greater or lesser significance,…
- My brain sometimes departs from the agreed-upon reality, and my private reality is a very lonely place. But in the end, I'm not sure I…
- But new love only lasts so long, and then you crash back into the real people you are, and from as high as we were,…
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