Erin Quote by Erin McCarthy

“Only reading, she knew, could distract her from her obsessive thoughts and restore her sense of peace.”

— Hilma Wolitzer

“what massive turbulence of emotion she hid beneath a surface of total calm and placidity.”

— William Boyd

“It was only in the first few years that she felt herself screaming silently, at times, for a glimpse of human ability, a single…

— Ayn Rand

“Her brain was a storm, her usual insight gone.”

— Alice Sebold

“She shouldn't be thinking this way; it brought the panic-thing closer. If she didn't get her mind out of this rut, she would soon…

— Stephen King

“The voices inside her head had awakened from their peace as they hissed in whisper through her ears. They slithered inside Sophia's mind and…

— Arti Manani

“She talks in her most sedate voice, attempting to alleviate out fears, soothe our anxiety. She knows that if we are to survive watching…

— Nayomi Munaweera

“her. I never felt properly sorry for schizophrenics, she thought, unable to escape the voices in their heads and fighting for their sanity with…

— Connie Willis

“She believed that people revealed themselves most when they were vaguely anxious, and few things brought out nonspecific anxieties like being in the presence…

— Orson Scott Card

“She felt that her speech was voicing the incoherency her thoughts, and stopped abruptly.”

— Kate Chopin

“She made a sound of frustration that no one else could hear. She’d heard that restraining expression of high emotion creates terminal illness in…

— Victoria Danann

“It would never have crossed her mind spontaneously that somebody might actually need silence. That silence helps you to go inward, that anyone who…

— Muriel Barbery