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“But that’s the thing about mental illness; there’s no such thing as a cookie-cutter diagnosis. We’re all crazy in our own special way. Some of us just have it worse than others.”
― Lisa Unger, In the Blood

“But did you know that eyewitness testimony is often totally unreliable? The human memory only records events through the filter of its own frame of reference. We try to fit the information we receive into schemas, units of knowledge that we possess about the world that correspond with frequently encountered situations, individuals, ideas, and situations. In other words, we often see things as we expect to see them, or want to see them, and not always as they are.”
― Lisa Unger, In the Blood

“Don’t believe everything you think.”
― Louise Penny, A Great Reckoning

“Sometimes bravery is just getting on with things.”
― A.F. Harrold, Fizzlebert Stump: The Boy Who Ran Away from the Circus