Aran

“noncooperation with evil is just as much a moral duty as is cooperation with good.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., The Radical King

“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

“Friends did matter. Friends like these anyway, ones who were fiercely intelligent and similarly ambitious, who suffered through the same sort of ridicule and condemnation and survived, smiling.”
― Marie Benedict, The Other Einstein

“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