She was motivated not by what others had done to her, not by envy, not by a conviction of moral superiority, but by life’s possibilities.
“All I learnt from the years I have wasted is that sometimes the only thing to do with pain is feel it.”
― Flowers in Bone Cages
― Flowers in Bone Cages
“Depression gave me extreme perspicacity; rather than skin, it was as if I had only thin gauze bandages to shield me from everything I saw.”
― Prozac Nation: Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America – A Landmark Mental Health Memoir of the 90s Era
― Prozac Nation: Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America – A Landmark Mental Health Memoir of the 90s Era
“Religion is the theological equivalent of a quick-buck insurance scam, where you pay in your premium year after year, and then, when you need the benefits you paid for so—pardon the pun—so religiously, you discover the company that took your money does not, in fact, exist.”
― Revival
― Revival
“Everything has a cost; you just have to be prepared to pay the price.”
― The Affair
― The Affair
“Sometimes doing nothing is a decision too,”
― The Affair
― The Affair
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