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“It follows that there are two ways for the nature and use of human power to change. One is that an order might issue from the palace, a command unto the people saying “It is thus.” But the other, the more certain, the more inevitable, is that those thousand thousand points of light should each send a new message. When the people change, the palace cannot hold.”
― The Power
― The Power
“Despair is always described as dull, when the truth is that despair has a light all its own, a lunar glow, the color of mottled silver.”
― This Close to Happy: A Reckoning with Depression
― This Close to Happy: A Reckoning with Depression
“I have learned that however bleak the world may seem, we are able to find reasons to carry on living in it.”
― The Other Side of Silence: A Psychiatrist's Memoir of Depression
― The Other Side of Silence: A Psychiatrist's Memoir of Depression
“You see, down here, where life hangs heavy like a suffocating cloak, I can’t remember that I’ve ever felt any other way. I need to be reminded that there are reasons in the world to hold on, even if I have forgotten them; I tell myself if I can just hold on I will remember them, these reasons, they will come back to me.”
― This Close to Happy: A Reckoning with Depression
― This Close to Happy: A Reckoning with Depression
“My anxiety disorder, on the other hand, is always with me and comes with all sorts of niggling “bonus” disorders and phobias, like some sort of terrible boxed set.”
― Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things
― Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things
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