Haley

“If you’re worried you have a psychosis, you probably don’t, but even if you do, there’s help for it. Fighting with anxiety makes it worse; instead, accept the anxiety, and it will become less scary. Take a moment to breathe and take stock of your surroundings. Remember what’s real. Say, “This sucks, but it will pass.” We aren’t responsible for our thoughts, we are only responsible for what we do with them. Mental health care can and should be taken as seriously as physical health care. A diagnosis is not a bad thing.”
― Mara Wilson, Where Am I Now?: True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental Fame

“People may have to die, but morbidity will live forever.”
― Mara Wilson, Where Am I Now?

“Or maybe it’s time for people to be their own Jedi. They weren’t gods — just people like us, who saw a need. If they could find a way, I’m sure we can.”
― John Jackson Miller, A New Dawn

“Mean girls come in all shapes and sizes. Some are blond cheerleaders, and some are Francophile brunettes who love Tim Burton and write song lyrics on their Converse. It was rarely the hellhounds who said anything mean to me; they expressed no real malice toward me other than the occasional eye roll. They were at the top and had nothing to gain by pushing me around. The ones who scared me, who still scare me, are the girls who see all other girls as competition, who see themselves as the persecuted ones, the ones whom the pretty and popular girls hate. When you believe you're persecuted, you will believe anything you do is justified.”
― Mara Wilson, Where Am I Now?