Shannon

“The thing about pills, Regan wanted to say to the doctor who had clearly never taken any, was that the ups and downs still happened; they were just different now, contained within brackets of limitation. Some inner lawlessness was still there, screeching for a higher high and clawing for a lower low, but ultimately the pills were loose restraints, a method of numbly shrinking”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“He is the most wonderful person alive. I am suddenly struck by the fact that he is unlike anyone else in the world. How many people could love me like this? How many people would visit every day at six o'clock, without fail? And bring me dinner, and a grocery bag of fruit? Who could? Who would? Why would they?”
― Marya Hornbacher, Madness: A Bipolar Life

“Yes, there was something special about me, and I knew what it was. I was the kind of girl they found dead in a hall bedroom with an empty bottle of sleeping pills in her hand. But things weren’t entirely black—not yet. When you’re young and healthy you can plan on Monday to commit suicide, and by Tuesday you’re laughing again.”
― J. Randy Taraborrelli, The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe

“I wondered how you would react when i revealed to you my hidden parts, my ugly parts that don't do well in the sunlight”
― Ashley Berry, Separate Things: A Memoir