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"Listening on audible , maybe that is my mistake. I’m really not enjoying it , I loved it at the very start and the concept sounds so up my alley , but the characters aren’t compelling me at all and it feels like it just goes on and on . Might be an audio issue in that it would be better read physically ? People adore this I really want to" — Mar 01, 2026 01:49AM
"Listening on audible , maybe that is my mistake. I’m really not enjoying it , I loved it at the very start and the concept sounds so up my alley , but the characters aren’t compelling me at all and it feels like it just goes on and on . Might be an audio issue in that it would be better read physically ? People adore this I really want to" — Mar 01, 2026 01:49AM
“You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.”
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“Things people say to depressives that they don’t say in other life-threatening situations:
‘Come on, I know you’ve got tuberculosis, but it could be worse. At least no one’s died.’
'Why do you think you got cancer of the stomach?’
‘Yes, I know, colon cancer is hard, but you want to try living with someone who has got it. Sheesh. Nightmare.’
‘Oh, Alzheimer’s you say? Oh, tell me about it, I get that all the time.’
‘Ah, meningitis. Come on, mind over matter.’
‘Yes, yes, your leg is on fire, but talking about it all the time isn’t going to help things, is it?’
‘Okay. Yes. Yes. Maybe your parachute has failed. But chin up.”
― Reasons to Stay Alive
‘Come on, I know you’ve got tuberculosis, but it could be worse. At least no one’s died.’
'Why do you think you got cancer of the stomach?’
‘Yes, I know, colon cancer is hard, but you want to try living with someone who has got it. Sheesh. Nightmare.’
‘Oh, Alzheimer’s you say? Oh, tell me about it, I get that all the time.’
‘Ah, meningitis. Come on, mind over matter.’
‘Yes, yes, your leg is on fire, but talking about it all the time isn’t going to help things, is it?’
‘Okay. Yes. Yes. Maybe your parachute has failed. But chin up.”
― Reasons to Stay Alive
“I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the beauty it brings about. For without pain, there can be no pleasure. Without sadness, there can be no happiness. Without misery there can be no beauty. And without these, life is endless, hopeless, doomed and damned.
Adult. You have become adult.”
― Paingod and Other Delusions
Adult. You have become adult.”
― Paingod and Other Delusions
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