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“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
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“People could not get enough of what they had lost, even if they no longer wanted it.”
― The Interestings
― The Interestings
“That was when Leonard realized something crucial about depression. The smarter you were, the worse it was. The sharper your brain, the more it cut you up.”
― The Marriage Plot
― The Marriage Plot
“There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.”
― O Pioneers!
― O Pioneers!
“People get sick and sometimes they get better and sometimes they don't. And it doesn't matter if the sickness is cancer or if it's depression. Sometimes the drugs work and sometimes they don't. Sometimes the drugs work for a while and then they stop. Sometimes the alternative stuff works and sometimes it doesn't. And sometimes you wonder if no outside interference makes any difference at all; if an illness is like a storm, if it simply has to run its course and, at the end of it, depending on how robust you are, you will be alive. Or you will be dead.”
― The Mystery of Mercy Close
― The Mystery of Mercy Close
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