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High Functioning: Overcome Your Hidden Depression and Reclaim Your Joy

by Judith Joseph

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“Darkness is drawn to light, but light does not know it; light must absorb the darkness and therefore meet its own extinguishment.”
― Edna O'Brien, In the Forest

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“When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.”
― Stephen King, Joyland

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“I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.”
― Julia Child

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“The truth is: I did want to be my dad's poem. I wanted to be his drawing, his novella, his most refined work of art. I wanted him to shape me with his love and intelligence. I wanted him to edit out my mistakes and many indulgences, with a sharp red pencil or a clean eraser.”
― Alysia Abbott, Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father

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“Childhood was a fantastic country to live in.”
― Tim Tharp, The Spectacular Now

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