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“I never again looked at the sky and saw only vastness and beauty. From that afternoon on I saw that death was also and always there.”
― Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

“Some part of me instinctively reached out, and in an odd way understood this pain, never imagining that I would someday look in the mirror and see their sadness and insanity in my own eyes.”
― Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

“When I first thought about writing this book, I conceived of it as a book about moods, and an illness of moods, in the context of an individual life. As I have written it, however, it has somehow turned out to be very much a book about love as well: love as sustainer, as renewer, and as protector. After each seeming death within my mind or heart, love has returned to recreate hope and restore life. It has, at its best, made the inherent sadness of life bearable, and its beauty manifest. It has, inexplicably and savingly, provided not only cloak but lantern for the darker seasons and grimmer weather.”
― Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

“They used to treat sheep carcasses with Lithium so if the Coyotes went after the herd and bit on the treated carcasses, the got so sick they kept their teeth to themselves.”
― Kay Jamison