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“She kept talking and she kept talking. I thought she would never stop. Standing there, I felt the sun pour through the windows, setting and rising on my back. The sunroom had become a sundial measuring the geological age of my psychological toture.”
― A Head Full of Ghosts
― A Head Full of Ghosts
“What happens to the space that two people occupied together? How can it just disappear? Why can't it just become something else?”
― So Sad Today: Personal Essays
― So Sad Today: Personal Essays
“But what if I did tell people exactly what was going on? What if I valued my own peace of mind more than what other people think of me? Would I end up jobless, friendless, and loveless? Would I vanish entirely?”
― So Sad Today: Personal Essays
― So Sad Today: Personal Essays
“Like daffodils in the early days of spring, my neurons were resprouting receptors as the winter of the illness ebbed.”
― Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
― Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
“Let's pretend you are capable of being who I think I need you to be: a love story.”
― So Sad Today: Personal Essays
― So Sad Today: Personal Essays
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