T.J.

“I write humor as it's pretty much the only thing keeping me out of an asylum.”
― Bonnie Daly, Christmas Madness, Mayhem, and Mall Santas: Humorous Insights into the Holiday Season

“When people are suicidal, their thinking is paralyzed, their options appear spare or nonexistent, their mood is despairing, and hopelessness permeates their entire mental domain. The future cannot be separated from the present, and the present is painful beyond solace. ‘This is my last experiment,’ wrote a young chemist in his suicide note. ‘If there is any eternal torment worse than mine I’ll have to be shown.”
― Kay Redfield Jamison, Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide

“To write competently is to do a few magic tricks for friends and family; to write well is to run away and join the circus.”
― Toby Litt, The Guardian

“The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are. Imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn’t have the weight of gender expectations.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists