Aran

“I have become fundamentally and deeply skeptical that anyone who does not have this illness can truly understand it. And, ultimately, it is probably unreasonable to expect the kind of acceptance of it that one so desperately desires. It is not an illness that lends itself to easy empathy. Once a restless or frayed mood has turned to anger, or violence, or psychosis, Richard, like most, finds it very difficult to see it as illness, rather than as being willful, angry, irrational, or simply tiresome.”
― Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind

“We are so often buried alive in the dirt,” Eriko says, “that death, when it comes, won’t seem much different.”
― Maureen Lindley, A Girl Like You

“She would have lain down with her cackling chickens if she could. Buried herself in their warm straw, let the world go its brutal way.”
― Maureen Lindley, A Girl Like You

“I’m still out there. In my head. I have to sort it out or I’ll never come home.”
― Greg Bear, War Dogs