Joy Bishop

“the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good and thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past”
― Marquez Gabriel Garcia

“Call it dysphoric mania, agitated depression, or a mixed state: nobody will understand anyway. Mania and depression at once mean the will to die and the motivation to make it happen. This is why mixed states are the most dangerous periods of mood disorders. Tearfulness and racing thoughts happen. So do agitation and guilt, fatigue and morbidity and dread. Walking late at night, trying to get murdered, happens. Trying to explain a bipolar mixed state is like trying to explain the Holy Trinity, three persons in one God: you just have to take it on faith when I tell you that the poles bend, cross, never snapping.”
― Elissa Washuta, My Body Is a Book of Rules

“You know, I never realized the end of the world would be kept to such a tight, regimented TV Guide schedule.”
― Paul Tremblay, The Cabin at the End of the World

“He’d irrationally hoped he could somehow put off indefinitely the future day on which she would recognize cruelty, ignorance, and injustice were the struts and pillars of the social order, as unavoidable and inevitable as the weather.”
― Paul Tremblay, The Cabin at the End of the World