Luna > Luna's Quotes

“I know what she smells like. This little freckle on her neck when she pulls up her hair. Her upper lip is a little plumper than the lower. The curve of her wrist, when she holds a pen. It’s wrong, really wrong, but I know the shape of her. I go to sleep thinking about it, and then I wake up, go to work, and she is there, and it’s impossible. I tell her stuff I know she’ll agree to, just to hear her hum back at me. It’s like hot water down my fucking spine. She’s married. She’s brilliant. She trusts me, and all I think about is taking her to my office, stripping her, doing unspeakable things to her. And I want to tell her. I want to tell her that she’s luminous, she’s so bright in my mind, sometimes I can’t focus. Sometimes I forget why I came into the room. I’m distracted. I want to push her against a wall, and I want her to push back. I want to go back in time and punch her stupid husband on the day I met him and then travel back to the future and punch him again. I want to buy her flowers, food, books. I want to hold her hand, and I want to lock her in my bedroom. She’s everything I ever wanted and I want to inject her into my veins and also to never see her again. There’s nothing like her and these feelings, they are fucking intolerable. They were half-asleep while she was gone, but now she’s here and my body thinks it’s a fucking teenager and I don’t know what to do. I don’t know what to do. There is nothing I can do, so I’ll just . . . not.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Love on the Brain

“The mind is a function of the brain and is created from biology.”
― Suzanne O'Sullivan, The Sleeping Beauties: And Other Stories of Mystery Illness

“Pathology is a fact independent of the observer, but how one responds to symptoms is drawn from knowledge and experience.”
― Suzanne O'Sullivan, The Sleeping Beauties: And Other Stories of Mystery Illness

“One may smile, and smile, and be a villain; at least I'm sure it may be so in Denmark.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“Conscience doth make cowards of us all.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“Listen to many, speak to a few.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“The world is imperfectly perfect and always has been.”
― Hillary Sit

“The brain is a cultured organ. It depends on exposure to learn. Only a small part of learning is conscious.”
― Suzanne O'Sullivan, The Sleeping Beauties: And Other Stories of Mystery Illness

“Every medical problem is a combination of the biological, the psychological and the social. It is only the weighting of each that changes.”
― Suzanne O'Sullivan, The Sleeping Beauties: And Other Stories of Mystery Illness

“Illness is a socially patterned behaviour, far more than people realize. How a person interprets and reacts to bodily changes depends... Personal and societal role modes create expectations of health... Our brains are wired through experience to respond in a certain way to certain provocation.”
― Suzanne O'Sullivan, The Sleeping Beauties: And Other Stories of Mystery Illness

“That's how modern medicine works: disease impresses people; illness with no evidence of the disease does not. Psychological illness, psychosomatic and functional symptoms are the least respected of medical problems.”
― Suzanne O'Sullivan, The Sleeping Beauties: And Other Stories of Mystery Illness

“At birth, the brain is a blank canvas that is full of possibility. A newborn has more brain cells than an adult.”
― Suzanne O'Sullivan, The Sleeping Beauties: And Other Stories of Mystery Illness

“If you can't say what is happening in the brain, nobody will care.”
― Suzanne O'Sullivan, The Sleeping Beauties: And Other Stories of Mystery Illness

“Biological correlates are often used to give credence to the experience of psychosomatic disorders. An objective change on a blood test or scan allows others to believe in the suffering.”
― Suzanne O'Sullivan, The Sleeping Beauties: And Other Stories of Mystery Illness

“The [asylum-seeking] children are embodying a sociocultural phenomenon. Their story has been written across nations, in a combination that has made them unique. It has been impacted by poor social circumstances, poor nutrition, epigenetics, abusers, authority figures, politicians, parents, doctors and the media.”
― Suzanne O'Sullivan, The Sleeping Beauties: And Other Stories of Mystery Illness

“The children translate for the parents ... They are their parents' conduit to the new world.”
― Suzanne O'Sullivan, The Sleeping Beauties: And Other Stories of Mystery Illness

“... alternating between anticipation and despondency. That has physical consequences.”
― Suzanne O'Sullivan, The Sleeping Beauties: And Other Stories of Mystery Illness

“... [resignation syndrome was] like being in a dream that she didn't want to wake up from.”
― Suzanne O'Sullivan, The Sleeping Beauties: And Other Stories of Mystery Illness

“If a man does not have sauce, then he is lost. But the same man can get lost in the sauce.”
― Gucci Mane

“We physicalize mood, emotional well-being and even personality. Confident people stand with confidence.”
― Suzanne O'Sullivan, The Sleeping Beauties: And Other Stories of Mystery Illness

“A person looking for help must keep in mind what help there is.”
― Suzanne O'Sullivan, The Sleeping Beauties: And Other Stories of Mystery Illness

“Functional neurological and psychosomatic disorders are often a manifestation of a maladaptive response to the mistakes made by the human system of perception.”
― Suzanne O'Sullivan, The Sleeping Beauties: And Other Stories of Mystery Illness

“Memory is tricky; stories evolve in the telling and retelling, with contributions from many parties.”
― Suzanne O'Sullivan, The Sleeping Beauties: And Other Stories of Mystery Illness

“Will you listen to me just this once?” he nearly yelled. “I . . . I like you, Maddy. I mean, more than just as a friend. Are you so stubborn you can’t
see that? Maybe last night meant nothing to you, but it meant something to me.” His eyes were vulnerable, almost tortured. “Did you ever even
consider that I might love you, you stubborn, impossible girl?”
― Scott Speer, Immortal City