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“I wonder how many moments like this I missed when my mind succumbed to my illness. I want to soak you in now that I can. I want to hear everything you’re saying, and I want to feel everything that you’re not.”
― Ashley Marie Berry, Separate Things: A Memoir

tags: bipolar-quotes, mental-health-breakthrough-time, mental-health-quotes

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“This isn’t a story about survival because a lot of my pieces have already been lost. Some rebirth has occurred, so I cannot say I’ve survived when I’m not the same person who started this journey.”
― Ashley Marie Berry, Separate Things: A Memoir

tags: humour, memoir, mental-health-awareness, mental-health-quote, mental-health-recovery, psychology-quotes, therapy-quotes

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“Some thoughts are too worthy for words. They’re too pretty, or too heavy, or too light.”
― Ashley Marie Berry, Separate Things: A Memoir

tags: mental-health-awareness, mental-health-quotes

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“That feeling will come again—that feeling of not being enough for you. And I’ll sweep it up in me and then let it sweep out. I’ll try not to own it. I’ll not bear its heaviness.”
― Ashley Marie Berry, Separate Things: A Memoir

tags: bipolar-quotes, brene-brown, depression-quotes, mental-health-awareness, mental-health-quotes, mental-health-recovery, mental-health-stigma, you-are-enough

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“I fell in love with this self that was built from
every positive thought I had between the shameful ones. She came from every bright light I’d noticed before it was overshadowed with darkness. I hoarded these delicate bits of time, waiting for when they could radiate again.”
― Ashley Marie Berry

tags: mental-health-quotes

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Book Promotions — 3000 members — last activity Jan 16, 2026 05:30AM
Well, it seems there is a group for everything else out there, but not one specifically for promoting books. There are places within groups to do it, ...more