Elise

“There are millions and millions of people with mental problems. They work regular jobs, irregular jobs, they work at home, they don’t work, they’re married or single, they have kids or don’t, they do laundry and fall in love and have opinions and grieve their losses and, if they’re lucky, take their meds.
That’s what I’m learning. I am a person with a mental illness. So it takes some extra effort. So sometimes it’s debilitating. But now that I’m learning to manage it, it’s becoming not my entire life but simply a part of how I live, something the people around me live with as well, something I can accept. I have to. That’s the only way this works.”
― Marya Hornbacher, Madness: A Bipolar Life

“Faith doesn’t promise miracles and answered prayers; it only promises that they are possible.”
― Theodore Johnson, If We Are Brave: Essays from Black Americana

“When guys don’t say much, you get to invent what is going on in their heads and it is always way better than what’s actually happening in there.”
― Jeff Hiller, Actress of a Certain Age: My Twenty-Year Trail to Overnight Success

“But that’s the thing about harbingers: you never know until it’s too late.”
― Molly Jong-Fast, How to Lose Your Mother: A Daughter's Memoir