“A reminder to remember: just because the sharpness of the sadness has faded does not mean that it was not, once, terrible. It means only that time and space, creatures of infinite girth and tenderness, have stepped between the two of you, and they are keeping you safe as they were once unable to.”
― In the Dream House
― In the Dream House
“Friendship is possible with mice.”
― Of Walking in Ice: Munich-Paris, 11/23 to 12/14, 1974
― Of Walking in Ice: Munich-Paris, 11/23 to 12/14, 1974
“...a primary feature of the experience of staying in a psychiatric hospital is that you will not be believed about anything. A corollary to this feature: things will be believed about you that are not at all true.”
― The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
― The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
“Learn to read symptoms not only as problems to be overcome but as messages to be heeded.”
― When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress
― When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress
“For human beings to degrade the integrity of the earth by causing changes in its climate, by stripping the earth of its natural forests or destroying its wetlands; for human beings to contaminate the earth’s waters, its land, its air, and its life—these are sins.” For “to commit a crime against the natural world is a sin against ourselves and a sin against God.”
― Losing Earth: A Recent History
― Losing Earth: A Recent History
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