

“Although I contemplated suicide many times, and developed concrete plans once or twice, I never gave up. Rather than take the emergency exit, I searched relentlessly for remedies and coping mechanisms. Although often feeling worn down and deeply discouraged, I persisted in hoping better times might come.”
― Transcending Depression: Quest Without a Compass
― Transcending Depression: Quest Without a Compass

“Fukuchō responds with, what one could only describe as a shrug of the eyebrows."
from, The Island of Pleasure, Vol 2.”
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from, The Island of Pleasure, Vol 2.”
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“The Transhumanist Party offers the most inclusive ideology for all ethnicities and races, the religious and the atheists, conservatives and liberals, the young and the old regardless of socioeconomic status, gender identity, or any other individual qualities.”
― The Transhumanism Handbook
― The Transhumanism Handbook

“Thanksgiving is no time for amateur hour in the kitchen, but we were subjected to this Gong Show on a yearly basis. Aunt Kathy went knee deep in her preparations where others would have surrendered.”
― Surviving Chaos: How I Found Peace at A Beach Bar
― Surviving Chaos: How I Found Peace at A Beach Bar

“The monster—if there was one—never revealed itself to me again. But what I had learned over the past year was that monsters abound, usually in plain sight.”
― At the Water's Edge
― At the Water's Edge
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